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ˈsprawlingly, adv.
[f. sprawling ppl. a. + -ly2.]
In a sprawling manner.
1921Spectator 7 May 585/2 Gauntly outlined, white and still, Three haystacks peer above the hill; Three agèd rakes thrust sprawlingly Fantastic tendons to the sky. 1980Economist 15 Mar. 104/1 Several books of sociology, history, politics and literary criticism uneasily brought together into one weightily erudite but sprawlingly inconclusive survey. |