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scatteringly
adverb
uk /ˈskæt.ər.ɪŋ.li/ us /ˈskæt̬.ɚ.ɪŋ.li/
in a way that covers a large area with a small number of things:
The disease was present in villages along the river, and scatteringly in other places.
He predicted that the enemy would try to steal scatteringly into the city in the dark.
His friends lived scatteringly around that lonely land.
We marched very scatteringly, and the enemy seemed very puzzled.
Fruit trees had been planted scatteringly over the field.
A number of villages were built scatteringly along the coast.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Spreading and scattering
all over the placeidiom
bedaub
bell
bestrew
billow
dispersion
disseminate
distribution
dotted around
dredge
dusting
encroach on/upon something
rambling
scattered
slap something on
slather
smear
smudge
smudgily
sprinkle
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