sprawly

[ spraw-lee ]

adjective

, sprawl·i·er, sprawl·i·est.

1. tending to sprawl; straggly:

   The colt's legs were long and sprawly.

Word History and Origins

Origin of sprawly¹

First recorded in 1790–1800; sprawl + -y ¹

Example Sentences

They were all in the same sprawly handwriting of a woman—a woman who simply signed herself "Mittie."

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It is in a small, cramped hand, and you know the one purporting to be from him later was in a big, sprawly hand.

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A bee flew in at the door, lighted on the lace curtain and clung there, making sprawly motions with his thread-like legs.

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Ordinary sort of writing, rather unformed and sprawly, but after a trial run Micky managed a very presentable copy of it.

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The ants led him to a tiny hole with a finely pulverized rim just at the edge of a sprawly cactus.

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