Adverb

(en adverb)

in a scattering manner, suggesting scattering.

* {{quote-book, year=1908, author=Alice MacGowan, title=Judith of the Cumberlands, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=She pushed cautiously down to the edge of the rocks where the bushes grew scatteringly , pretending to herself that she wanted a bit of wild geranium that flourished in a crevice far below the top. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1895, author=Charles Egbert Craddock (AKA Mary Noailles Murfree), title=The Riddle Of The Rocks, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=The other men trooped along scatteringly , dodging under the low boughs of the stunted trees. }}

* {{quote-book, year=, author=Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), title=The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage='My father went straight to the hiding-place in full sight of everybody, and got out the fish-hooks and brought them and flung them scatteringly over my head, so that they fell in glittering confusion on the platform at my lover's knee. }}