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Word Meanings - SCAMBLINGLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In a scambling manner; with turbulence and noise; with bold intrusiveness.

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  • TURBULENCE
    The quality or state of being turbulent; a disturbed state; tumult; disorder; agitation. Shak. The years of . . . warfare and turbulence which ensued. Southey. Syn. -- Agitation; commotion; tumult; tumultuousness; termagance; unruliness;
  • SCAMBLER
    1. One who scambles. 2. A bold intruder upon the hospitality of others; a mealtime visitor.
  • MANNERIST
    One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
  • MANNERISM
    Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
  • NOISELESS
    Making, or causing, no noise or bustle; without noise; silent; as, the noiseless foot of time. So noiseless would I live. Dryden. -- Noise"less*ly, adv. -- Noise"less*ness, n.
  • NOISEFUL
    Loud; clamorous. Dryden.
  • NOISETTE
    A hybrid rose produced in 1817, by a French gardener, Noisette, of Charleston, South Carolina, from the China rose and the musk rose. It has given rise to many fine varieties, as the Lamarque, the Marechal Niel, and the Cloth of gold. Most roses
  • SCAMBLE
    1. To move awkwardly; to be shuffling, irregular, or unsteady; to sprawl; to shamble. "Some scambling shifts." Dr. H. More. "A fine old hall, but a scambling house." Evelyn. 2. To move about pushing and jostling; to be rude and turbulent;
  • MANNERLINESS
    The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale.
  • MANNERED
    1. Having a certain way, esp a. polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self. Give her princely training, that she may be Mannered as she is born. Shak. 2. Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity. His style
  • MANNER
    manual, skillful, handy, fr. LL. manarius, for L. manuarius 1. Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion. The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner
  • SCAMBLINGLY
    In a scambling manner; with turbulence and noise; with bold intrusiveness.
  • MANNERCHOR
    A German men's chorus or singing club.
  • MANNERLY
    Showing good manners; civil; respectful; complaisant. What thou thinkest meet, and is most mannerly. Shak.
  • NOISE
    1. Sound of any kind. The heavens turn about in a most rapid motion without noise to us perceived. Bacon. Note: Noise is either a sound of too short a duration to be determined, like the report of a cannon; or else it is a confused mixture of many
  • UNMANNERLY
    Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
  • SKIMBLE-SCAMBLE
    Rambling; disorderly; unconnected. Such a deal of skimble-scamble stuff. Shak.
  • OVERMANNER
    In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif.
  • ILL-MANNERED
    Impolite; rude.
  • CHINOISERIE
    Chinese conduct, art, decoration, or the like; also, a specimen of Chinese manners, art, decoration, etc.
  • WELL-MANNERED
    Polite; well-bred; complaisant; courteous. Dryden.
  • OUTNOISE
    To exceed in noise; to surpass in noisiness. Fuller.
  • OVERNOISE
    To overpower by noise.

 

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