scattershot, adv.

Jonathan Lighter wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM
Thu Dec 20 21:49:46 UTC 2007

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Not in OED. But _*scattershotly_ would sound ridiculous:

  2002 _New Yorker_ (July 15) 19: Spangles of smeared white spots...all but dance, scattershot and exuberant.

  JL


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