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From scatter + -y.
scattery (comparative more scattery, superlative most scattery)
- Tending to scatter or be scattered; loose, ragtag.
2007 December 25, Richard Eder, “Zap! Make the Interview Part Jig, Part Bullfight”, in New York Times[1]:For one thing, the speakers are writers, their subject literature, and art is proverbially long, and life short and scattery.
