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Definition of Disjointedly
1. Adverb. In a disjointed manner. "`We're not married, not really married,' she said, and slowly, reluctantly, disjointedly it came out"
Definition of Disjointedly
1. Adverb. In a disjointed manner ¹
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Definition of Disjointedly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disjointedly
Literary usage of Disjointedly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Synonyms Discriminated: A Complete Catalogue of Synonymous Words in the by Charles John Smith (1871)
"... who from any cause speaks inarticulately and disjointedly, as from indecision,
want of words, or natural defect of speech. He only is said to STUTTER ..."
2. Ainsworth's Magazine: A Miscellany of Romance, General Literature, & Art by William Harrison Ainsworth, George Cruikshank, Hablot Knight Browne (1854)
"But I cannot help informing you—disjointedly to be in keeping with the rest of
my chapter—that at supper I did not conjure at all, further than mutely ..."
3. Roughing it by Mark Twain (1913)
"loosely, disjointedly, and indiscriminately, and every now and then tugging out
a ragged word by the roots that had more hiccups than ..."
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