Adjective : spotty coloring. ,a spotty performance. From Dictionary.com.
He could feel the flaccid skin warm, but only spottily. From Wordnik.com. [Old Egg] Reference
Their prosperity seeps slowly, and spottily, to the masses. From Wordnik.com. [Primal Enterprise] Reference
The image came to me spottily, as if through TV white snow. From Wordnik.com. [The Quickie]
Amateur in 2001, but in two years on Tour has played spottily. From Wordnik.com. [The cruelest week in golf] Reference
The code has been "spottily enforced" but the Taliban hasn't stopped there. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Giltz: Extreme Taliban Makeover: The Secret Memo] Reference
The code has been \ "spottily enforced\" but the Taliban hasn\'t stopped there. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Giltz: Extreme Taliban Makeover: The Secret Memo] Reference
Close-shaven and spottily complected, he carried himself with something of a strut. From Wordnik.com. [Conan The Warlord]
Not keeping up exactly, but spottily trying to not miss out on anything big in your lives. From Wordnik.com. [The Week in Review] Reference
As performers, they were talented amateurs — good little athletes — but they were spottily trained. From Wordnik.com. [The Fourth Hand]
And such documents have been preserved only spottily and by chance, for the earlier part of the millennium now expiring. From Wordnik.com. [ON THE EVE OF THE MILLENNIUM] Reference
The manual has clearly been spottily translated from some other language, and does not even contain a "troubleshooting" section. From Wordnik.com. [Me] Reference
"Yes, the whole village is," said one woman, waving her hand at the huts spottily located in the desert, over the spread of sand and brush. From Wordnik.com. [Karin Badt: Clips from India: Rameswaram (i)] Reference
It is therefore but spottily productive of game or timber or anything else, and often causes high runoff and erosion in critical watersheds. From Wordnik.com. [The Nation's River A report on the Potomac from the U.S. Department of the Interior] Reference
Indiana, a state that straddles two timezones and only spottily embraces Daylight Savings Time, is planning to observe DST on a statewide basis starting April 2. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing: March 26, 2006 - April 1, 2006 Archives] Reference
But art is as brutal a taskmaster as Michael Bowen, and passion must be informed by gifts for language and character that are spottily displayed in this immense work. From Wordnik.com. [The Bloody Old Kentucky Home] Reference
Meanwhile Republicans -- who actually conducted the worst of the rigging -- audaciously, though spottily, projected accusations of election fraud onto the hapless Dems. From Wordnik.com. [Election Fraud in Mexico: NY Times balks again] Reference
Strange though how this works spottily and irregularly. From Wordnik.com. [Irish Blogs] Reference
Flickr provides some of this, but spottily, and at will. From Wordnik.com. [Design Observer: Main Posts] Reference
Other cities have similar laws, often spottily enforced. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page]
We need them to play young, play confused, play spottily. From Wordnik.com. [Sactown Royalty] Reference
Herbie Hancock's main stage performance could end up spottily attended. From Wordnik.com. [Articles - JazzTimes] Reference
Google Voice number, is functioning spottily on my iPhone 4, in any event. From Wordnik.com. [CNET News.com] Reference
Both were mostly regulated, albeit spottily, on the state level thanks to enforcement gaps. From Wordnik.com. [Kentucky.com: Homepage] Reference
The code, which has been spottily enforced, does not necessarily mean a gentler insurgency. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Global Home] Reference
Jake Goldberger tried his hand with "Don McKay," an admirable attempt even if the film only works spottily. From Wordnik.com. [CourierPostOnline.com - News] Reference
The code, which has been spottily enforced, does not necessarily mean a gentler insurgency, the NYT says in a report. From Wordnik.com. [dailyindia.com News Feed] Reference
I liked this show a lot the first season, and I've continued to watch spottily since then but haven't enjoyed it as much. From Wordnik.com. [EW.com: Today's Latest Headlines] Reference
Those two passions converge in the excellent (though spottily broadcast) Fringe, JJ Abrams 'latest mythology-to-the-max television show. From Wordnik.com. [Atomic] Reference
So the hangover comes today in the form of a self-important scholar who posts a broad-ranging but spottily-researched analysis of digital advertising. From Wordnik.com. [Traffick] Reference
The Coen brothers did it on "Blood Simple," the film that inspired Jake Goldberger to try his hand with "Don McKay," an admirable attempt even if the film only works spottily. From Wordnik.com. [Brandon Sun Online - Top Stories] Reference
He says those technologies are often implemented spottily and can't keep up with all the new places from which data can be stolen, from smart phones to Web collaboration tools. From Wordnik.com. [Forbes.com: News] Reference
The Olympics, with its 20,000 journalists, has left town, but the 2008 Paralympics in Beijing, September 6-17, 2008, is going strong, if spottily covered by news organizations. From Wordnik.com. [dailywireless.org] Reference
"spottily enforced" but the Taliban hasn't stopped there. From Wordnik.com. [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference
Cornelius would receive spottily or not at all. From Wordnik.com. [Science Fiction Hall of Fame]
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