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dispersedly

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Etymology

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From dispersed +‎ -ly.

Adverb

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dispersedly (comparative more dispersedly, superlative most dispersedly)

  1. In a dispersed manner; in a scattered way, here and there.
    • 1955, William Golding, The Inheritors, Faber and Faber, published 2005, page 40:
      Miles of darkness and sooty blots stretched away to the grey bar that was the sea; nearer, the river shone dispersedly in swamps and meanders.