Scrambling
['skræmblɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scramble
(a.) Confused and irregular; awkward; scambling.
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Examples
- By dint of hard scrambling he finally straddled the top, but some loose stones crumbled away and fell with a crash into the court within. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Alcibiades and some others were scrambling up after you; and then we saw you engage with that foremost blackguard. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Sit down, you dancing, prancing, shambling, scrambling poll-parrot! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- His scrambling home, from week's end to week's end, is like one great washing-day--only nothing's washed! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The two of them came scrambling down the rock like goats. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Yet it was better than the sordid scrambling conflict of the present. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
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