Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a divided state.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In a disjointed state.

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  • adverb In a disjointed state.

Etymologies

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disjoint +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Both responses presuppose that there are substantial enough differences between the two works to warrant our reading them disjointly.

    David Hume Morris, William Edward 2009

  • The government forces were raw levies, almost altogether composed of units of proletarian workers raised, inadequately armed and disjointly directed by the trades unions and political organizations.

    The Tragedy of Spain 1937

  • He commanded them to go conjointly out which disjointly entered, and let go out with them all the beasts and fowls living, and all the reptiles, every each after his kind and gender, to whom our Lord said: Grow ye and multiply upon the earth.

    The Golden Legend, vol. 1 1230-1298 1900

  • "I-- I do not treat you cruelly, Tennys," he answered disjointly, still looking at the slight, graceful figure, as if unable to withdraw his eyes.

    Nedra George Barr McCutcheon 1897

  • I'm pulling out a precious view two paragraphs disjointly so I invite you to read the entire article - titled

    "BANPC" via James Bow in Google Reader 2010

  • "So it's a way to put together a bunch of different pieces that until now have been studied disjointly, and to show the benefits of doing this together," explained Rosing.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009

  • Split into seven chapters, all equally sprinkled with phrases that are disjointly written and that don't get a point across, and some that make you think the book was written using some speech-to-text software ( "Vendor locking" anybody?), this book which "is for PHP developers who work in teams on complex projects" has given me an aversion to seeing three little words printed alongside each other ( "the PHP code").

    PHPDeveloper.org 2009

  • But I am starting to wonder, as has been disjointly mentioned in the other threads, if perhaps The Wolf was part of Arista Nashville testing the Carrie fanbase, and for that matter, her audience in general, to see if they could "get away with a Taylor."

    Carrie Underwood Fans SlayerboyM88 2009

  • It's not really surprising given how disjointly the game was written so far, but the diction and the emotional state between the characters fluctuates really rapidly sometimes, and I'd like to add some variables to track how things are going and smooth out that fluctuation a little with sensible text substitutions in some circumstances.

    Emily Short's Interactive Fiction 2008

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