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Straggling

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v. Present participle of straggle.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

a. & n. from straggle, v.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. A mode of dressing the surfaces of grindstones.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. spreading out in different directions

Word Usage

"Though "they had a very fine day" and everything is formally perfect "outward circumstances of arrangement, accommodation, and punctuality" the banded host of harmony dispersed in straggling sounds: "there was deficiency [...] a languor, a want of spirits, a want of union, which could not be got over" (III. vii, 331-32)."

Equivalent

untidy

Variant

straggle

Verb Stem

straggle