Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective having articles scattered about in a disorderly fashion.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
litter . - adjective Covered in
litter
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective filled or scattered with a disorderly accumulation of objects or rubbish
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Examples
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My major criticism of the model would be the amount of trash generated and littered from the individual packets.
Sustainable Design Update » Blog Archive » MicroFranchising 2007
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I just spent just a few minutes and found the word littered all over these websites.
Booker Rising 2010
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35Colonial settlers, regulated by both church and state, left a wider paper trail than Khoisan and slaves, though their paths remain littered with ambiguity.
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008
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The difference is small, but I literally had hundreds of new calls littered throughout my code.
Some Simple Scala Refactorings Jack Cough 2009
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The difference is small, but I literally had hundreds of new calls littered throughout my code.
Archive 2009-05-01 Jack Cough 2009
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I remember very distinctly that when I first started reading caselaw, which is a hazing ritual in and of itself, that word littered everywhere was one of the things that puzzled me right out of the gate.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Latin Phrases Law Students Should Know, But Likely Don’t: 2007
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However, not only is your theory a less word littered laugh.
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Darren Aronofsky said Bale's apparent F-word littered rant on the set of Terminator:
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We have numerous of these wall labels littered throughout the galleries and in a plethora of different languages.
Museum Blogs 2009
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In a time of economic turmoil, he said, the market is "littered" with battered stocks.
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