patchily
English
Etymology
Adverb
patchily (comparative more patchily, superlative most patchily)
- In a patchy manner.
- 2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes[1], page 310:
- Hawkins, Lewis and Hankin are placed in the Diachronic category due to their attempt at a historical perspective, even though that is very patchily executed.
Synonyms
- sporadically; see also Thesaurus:discontinuously