scatteration

Toronto suffers, in the minds of many, with a kind of "scatteration".

Planning for Transportation in the Metropolitan Community 1959

Rapid transit would aid mightily a more intensive development of this metropolitan heartland and would tend to minimize this aesthetically unattractive "scatteration".

Planning for Transportation in the Metropolitan Community 1959

A general "scatteration" occurred in all directions save one.

Forty-Six Years in the Army John M. Schofield

If such concentration of energy is necessary for the success of a Gladstone, what can we common mortals hope to accomplish by "scatteration"?

Pushing to the Front Orison Swett Marden 1887

For many of us gallery-goers, this is as close as we will ever get to the insides of ordinary African-American homes — their touches of sometimes garish comfort gone, as Mark Twain wrote of the wreck of a raft, "all to smash and scatteration."

After Katrina Updike, John 2006

So we're struggling against this configuration of scatteration (ph) and we've been struggling against it since the 1950s

CNN Transcript Oct 1, 2005 2005

It hit the pier in the center and went all to smash and scatteration like a box of matches struck by lightning.40

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

It hit the pier in the center and went all to smash and scatteration like a box of matches struck by lightning.40

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

I did see one explode at a review in Melbourne — and, my word! what a scatteration it made.

Robbery Under Arms 2004

She was engaged in the homely occupation of darning socks, and what with her size, her loose untidy dress – serge of the colour of boiled spinach, with dibs and dabs of embroidery here and there – and a green scarf that belonged to the dress, and a rust-coloured one she had put on in a fit of absentmindedness, and her mending-basket, and a scatteration of socks, she pretty well filled the old-fashioned sofa.

The Key Wentworth, Patricia 1944