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Definition of Stragglingly
1. Adverb. In a ragged irregular manner. "A stone wall trails raggedly through the woods"
Definition of Stragglingly
1. adv. In a straggling manner.
Definition of Stragglingly
1. Adverb. In a straggling way. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stragglingly
Literary usage of Stragglingly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual Flora of Madeira and the Adjacent Island of Porto Santo and the by Richard Thomas Lowe (1868)
"... to the eastward beyond the 1st ravine of the Louros or Lazaretto. Fl. and fr.
at all seasons.—A somewhat stragglingly or remotely and flauntingly ..."
2. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau by Henry David Thoreau (1906)
"Flocks of yellow-breasted, russet-backed female bobolinks are seen flitting
stragglingly across the meadows. The bobolink loses his song as he loses his ..."
3. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau by Henry David Thoreau (1906)
"Flocks of yellow-breasted, russet-backed female bobolinks are seen flitting
stragglingly across the meadows. The bobolink loses his song as he loses his ..."
4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1846)
"The morning dawned chilly and stragglingly. Heavy mists came drifting across even
the feeble light of that winter's day. The atmosphere was bitter. ..."
5. Literary Friends and Acquaintance: A Personal Retrospect of American Authorship by William Dean Howells (1900)
"and he began to repeat stragglingly certain verses from one of his earlier poems,
until he came to the closing couplet. But I will give them in full, ..."
6. Literary Friends and Acquaintance: A Personal Retrospect of American Authorship by William Dean Howells (1900)
"and he began to repeat stragglingly certain verses from one of his earlier poems,
until he came to the closing couplet. But I will give them in full, ..."
7. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1884)
"... overlook a wide square, where a large proportion of stragglingly-built bamboo
1 galleried round and thatched with palm-leaves, declare the Malay, or, ..."
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