单词 | sprawlingly |
释义 | sprawlinglyadv. In a sprawling manner. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > absence of arrangement > [adverb] > with irregular arrangement at, to (the) straggle1488 stragglingly1579 extravagantly1623 disordinately1830 scatter-wise1875 dislocatedly1883 sprawlingly1921 1921 Spectator 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. 1927 Observer 12 June 13/3 Building..so widely and sprawlingly distributed that it disfigures an area ten or twenty times greater than is needed. 1980 Economist 15 Mar. 104/1 Several books of sociology, history, politics and literary criticism uneasily brought together into one weightily erudite but sprawlingly inconclusive survey. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < adv.1921 |
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