stragglesome
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stragglesome (comparative more stragglesome, superlative most stragglesome)
- Characterised or marked by straggling.
- 2009, Jonathan Miles, Dear American Airlines:
- But movement is scarce here tonight: stragglesome wanderers, looking purposeless and disattached, strolling for the sake of motion.
- 2016, Rudyard Kipling, From Sea to Sea:
- Bombay is too green, too pretty, and too stragglesome; and Madras died ever so long ago.