The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scrappily \Scrap"pi*ly\, adv.
In a scrappy manner; in scraps.
--Mary Cowden Clarke.
Wiktionary
adv. In a scrappy manner
WordNet
adv. in a bellicose contentious manner; "`Don't trespass onto my property,' the neighbor shouted combatively" [syn: combatively]
Usage examples of "scrappily".
It was a long story, as Beverley received it, told scrappily, but with certain rude art.
Victory was so close for the French, they had only to break through the scratch defence that was scrappily forming, and the day was theirs.
Nicabar held him back with a single hand, but Bovadin fought scrappily against him, cursing at Herrith.
Her hair hung scrappily out of the hasty braid Gaultry had tied it in before coming up to the Keyhole Chamber.
The scrappily withered features above her winged collar seemed fused with the porcelain bone beneath.