scatter
verb (used with object)
to throw loosely about; distribute at irregular intervals.
scatterer
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a word derived from
scatter.
Example Sentences
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Bukowski is a reliable scatterer of the peace.
From New York Times ● Nov. 26, 2018
"Up to Joyce's," Billy Falstar, that indefatigable gatherer and scatterer of news, announced, "they are smashing a hole in the off side of the house."
From Joyce of the North Woods by Harriet T. (Harriet Theresa) Comstock
Shiva-Sankarin is the destroyer or rather the scatterer; Shiva-Rakshaka is the preserver, the regenerator.
From From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky
The art is to use money so that it shall be the protector and not the scatterer of our time, the body-guard of the sovereign Intellect and Will.
From The Intellectual Life by Philip Gilbert Hamerton
If I were lord of as much as thou, I should support the sacred bard, thou scatterer of wealth, I should not abandon him to misery.
From Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology by James Freeman Clarke
