scrappily
- r in a bellicose contentious manner
- Not downhearted by the mere loss of their capital, Lithuanians scrappily founded another capital at Kovno, then took Memel as a likely seaport.
- This tiresome little witch story, which flirts scrappily with the question of good evil, is as far from the intent and purpose of Moralist Hawthorne as it is from literature .