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Definition of Scrappily
1. Adverb. In a bellicose contentious manner. "`Don't trespass onto my property,' the neighbor shouted combatively"
Definition of Scrappily
1. adv. In a scrappy manner; in scraps.
Definition of Scrappily
1. Adverb. In a scrappy manner ¹
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Definition of Scrappily
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scrappily
| scrat scratch-built scratch along scratch and sniff |
Literary usage of Scrappily
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1906)
"... in his essay on "The Mythical Napoleon," Mr. Evans has written somewhat
scrappily, without any serious effort to make the most of his subject. ..."
2. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1903)
"It may cover more subject matter, but it covers it scrappily, and with little
discrimination as to important and unimportant. It should count for something, ..."
3. A Life of William Shakespeare by Sidney Lee (1909)
"Plume's notes, which are scrappily written in an abbreviated script, supply two
new statements in regard .to Shakespeare, of which only one calls for ..."
4. A Life of William Shakespeare by Sidney Lee (1908)
"Plume's notes, which are scrappily written in an abbreviated script, supply two
new statements in regard to Shakespeare, of which only one calls for special ..."
5. Thought and Expression in the Sixteenth Century by Henry Osborn Taylor (1920)
"by Petrarch, who knew nothing of him except scrappily at second hand. Petrarch's way
of speaking of him had its effect upon generations who admired the ..."
6. Thought and Expression in the Sixteenth Century by Henry Osborn Taylor (1920)
"by Petrarch, who knew nothing of him except scrappily at second hand. Petrarch's way
of speaking of him had its effect upon generations who admired the ..."
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