stragglesome

comparative more stragglesome · superlative most stragglesome

1. Characterised or marked by straggling.

   Bombay is too green, too pretty, and too stragglesome; and Madras died ever so long ago.

   2016, Rudyard Kipling, From Sea to Sea

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   But movement is scarce here tonight: stragglesome wanderers, looking purposeless and disattached, strolling for the sake of motion.

   2009, Jonathan Miles, Dear American Airlines