Definition of "straggling" [strag•gling]

• Present participle of straggle. (verb)

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• "Though "they had a very fine day" and everything is formally perfect "outward circumstances of arrangement, accommodation, and punctuality" the banded host of harmony dispersed in straggling sounds: "there was deficiency [...] a languor, a want of spirits, a want of union, which could not be got over" (III. vii, 331-32)."
• "In a dingy basement window a crooked sign, in straggling, penciled letters, caught Sophie's eye: "Room to let, a bargain, cheap.""
• "She was dark, like her mother, but her features were irregular, and her hair fell in straggling, dim locks about her face."