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adv. - In a bellicose contentious manner.

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  • Thanks to these scrappily compelling portraits, this is a rich read.
  • She seldom wrote, and then but scrappily; and it seemed to him certain that she was forgetting him.
  • They sang, rather scrappily, the latest would-be comic songs, as they went through the grim villages.
  • The dog yapped scrappily at the traffic zooming by as Wolfe waited patiently for the traffic light to change.
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