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  • adverb In a scratchy manner.

Etymologies

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scratchy +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • But, although that scene is still painful to watch, Bond's skill lies in showing how violence permeates domestic life: Pam and Len gradually turn into a scratchily abusive couple who seem destined to become like Pam's parents who use ostentatious silence as a form of marital revenge.

    Saved – review 2011

  • Before that, your ancestors were scratchily transcribed entries in leather-bound ledgers.

    Free - Are we? Rafael Behr spouts cockwhaffle on CCTV liberty. FIDO The Dog 2009

  • It is the kind of memory that is burnished on the brain and he began scratchily, as if the years between those fixtures had not taken place.

    Strauss Must Hope Pitch Will Turn 2009

  • Worse, the apparently universal belief is that it is better to be scratchily out of sorts, or actually engaged in bitter hostilities, in some physical company at christmas, *irrespective of whether one has positively chosen or been chosen by that company* than either alone, or in chosen virtual company.

    Arrive at this post a little lost? Or tired? Fatigued and isolated? Elizabeth McClung 2009

  • Hindustani classical music blared out scratchily over makeshift speakers Uncle Mayur had set up in the garden.

    The Hundred-Foot Journey Richard C. Morais 2008

  • Hindustani classical music blared out scratchily over makeshift speakers Uncle Mayur had set up in the garden.

    The Hundred-Foot Journey Richard C. Morais 2008

  • Hindustani classical music blared out scratchily over makeshift speakers Uncle Mayur had set up in the garden.

    The Hundred-Foot Journey Richard C. Morais 2008

  • Hindustani classical music blared out scratchily over makeshift speakers Uncle Mayur had set up in the garden.

    The Hundred-Foot Journey Richard C. Morais 2008

  • I liked dive bars with old jukeboxes that scratchily played Sinatra and “Dock of the Bay.”

    Fired! Written 2006

  • I liked dive bars with old jukeboxes that scratchily played Sinatra and “Dock of the Bay.”

    Fired! Written 2006

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