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fragmentary

adjective as in broken, incomplete

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The Lotus and the Storm turns out to be a grand, haunted melodrama with elements of camp, delivered in fragmentary reveries.

Literature has been in a plundered, fragmentary state for a long time.

Francis Watson argued that all of the fragmentary sentences preserved on the papyrus are also found in the Gospel of Thomas.

The author's statistical claims were based on wild extrapolations from a few fragmentary and unreliable sources.

I took phone calls from the field, with fragmentary updates.

The abbey was founded by William the Lion in 1178, but war, fire and fanaticism have left it sadly fragmentary.

Such advice will not serve as a screen if based on a fragmentary, incomplete statement of facts.

Yes: she remembered now, though it still seemed like a dream—a fragmentary, misty dream.

Such are the fragmentary references that have survived concerning the career of the first Cambridge printer.

While Madame Bastien was speaking David was hastily glancing over the fragmentary writings his hostess had just handed to him.

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On this page you'll find 31 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to fragmentary, such as: scattered, sketchy, bitty, disconnected, discrete, and disjointed.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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