fragmentarily

English

Etymology

fragmentary +‎ -ly

Adverb

fragmentarily (comparative more fragmentarily, superlative most fragmentarily)

1. In a fragmentary manner.
   • 1922, D. H. Lawrence, chapter 18, in Aaron’s Rod‎^[1]:

     So he got his flute, propped up the book against a vase, and played the tune, whilst she hummed it fragmentarily.

   • 1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter X, in Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC:

     In the working-class quarters the barricades were being pulled down, rather fragmentarily, for it is a lot easier to build a barricade than to put the stones back.

   • 1969, Kurt Vonnegut, chapter 3, in Slaughterhouse-Five‎^[2], New York: Dial, published 2005, page 57:

     Two were ramshackle old men—droolers as toothless as carp. They were irregulars, armed and clothed fragmentarily with junk taken from real soldiers who were newly dead.