fragmentarily

fragmentary +‎ -ly

fragmentarily (comparative more fragmentarily, superlative most fragmentarily)

1. In a fragmentary manner.
   • 1922, D. H. Lawrence, Aaron’s Rod, Chapter 18,

     So he got his flute, propped up the book against a vase, and played the tune, whilst she hummed it fragmentarily.

   • 1938, George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia, Chapter 10,

     In the working-class quarters the barricades were being pulled down, rather fragmentarily, for it is a lot easier to build a barricade than to put the stones back.

   • 1969, Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five, New York: Dial, 2005, Chapter 3, p. 57,

     Two were ramshackle old men—droolers as toothless as carp. They were irregulars, armed and clothed fragmentarily with junk taken from real soldiers who were newly dead.