English

Adverb

scatteringly ‎(comparative more scatteringly, superlative most scatteringly)

1. in a scattering manner, suggesting scattering.
   • 1908, Alice MacGowan, Judith of the Cumberlands:

     She pushed cautiously down to the edge of the rocks where the bushes grew scatteringly, pretending to herself that she wanted a bit of wild geranium that flourished in a crevice far below the top.

   • 1895, Charles Egbert Craddock (AKA Mary Noailles Murfree), The Riddle Of The Rocks:

     The other men trooped along scatteringly, dodging under the low boughs of the stunted trees.

   • (Can we date this quote?), Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories:

     'My father went straight to the hiding-place in full sight of everybody, and got out the fish-hooks and brought them and flung them scatteringly over my head, so that they fell in glittering confusion on the platform at my lover's knee.