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miscellaneously

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a miscellaneous or mixed manner; with variety or diversity; promiscuously.

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  • adverb In a miscellaneous manner.

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Examples

  • A spokesman for the Kansas Republican told Think Progress that the tweet had been a mistake, owed to a miscellaneously copied URL.

    Mike Pompeo, GOP Candidate, Apologizes For Tweet Attacking Challenger As An 'Evil' 'Turban Topper', Could-Be Muslim 2010

  • The gamblers, he said, “had a careless way, when drunk, of firing revolvers, sometimes at each other, and other times quite miscellaneously.”

    THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007

  • My Mystery soon ceases to be conversational — is taken poorly, in a word, having lunched too miscellaneously — and goes below.

    Reprinted Pieces 2007

  • For instance Gwen's grandson Richie has recently spent countless hard working hours digging up tons upon tons of miscellaneously sized rocks from a 4 acre cornfield.

    Musings of a Simple Country Man: Seed Time 2006

  • There are twenty or thirty pages in it of fascinating romantic attraction, and the whole book, though somewhat rudely and miscellaneously put together, is animated, and tells us what we wish to know.

    Uncollected Prose 2006

  • He began to perceive that a really useful man could not be found miscellaneously under every hat in Pall Mall.

    The Three Clerks 2004

  • Suddenly, about a third of the people on the sidewalk, miscellaneously distributed in the general throng, will start dancing like crazy and continue to do so for for about a minute.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » John Perry Barlow 2004

  • On others highly-coloured gods, and devils equally hideous, were grouped miscellaneously.

    Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004

  • For some time Goldsmith continued to write miscellaneously for reviews and other periodical publications, but without making any decided hit, to use a technical term.

    The Life of Oliver Goldsmith 2004

  • A thing altogether incredible were it not that attracted by such prey as a dead whale, the otherwise miscellaneously carnivorous shark will seldom touch a man.

    Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

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