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fragmentarily en · ADV

Etymology

From fragmentary + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a fragmentary manner.
   • Two were ramshackle old men—droolers as toothless as carp. They were irregulars, armed and clothed fragmentarily with junk taken from real soldiers who were newly dead. 1969, Kurt Vonnegut, chapter 3, in Slaughterhouse-Five, New York: Dial, published 2005, page 57:
   • So he got his flute, propped up the book against a vase, and played the tune, whilst she hummed it fragmentarily. 1922, D. H. Lawrence, chapter 18, in Aaron’s Rod:
   • In the working-class quarters the barricades were being pulled down, rather fragmentarily, for it is a lot easier to build a barricade than to put the stones back. 1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter X, in Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC:

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