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Irregularly

Irregularly \Ir*reg"u*lar*ly\, adv. In an irregular manner.

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irregularly

adv. In an irregular manner; without rule, method, or order.

WordNet
irregularly
  1. adv. in an irregular manner; "the patient is breathing irregularly" [ant: regularly]

  2. having an irregular form; "irregularly shaped solids" [ant: regularly]

  3. in an irregular manner; "her letters arrived irregularly" [syn: on an irregular basis] [ant: regularly]

  4. in an irregular manner; "the stomach mucosa was irregularly blackened"

Usage examples of "irregularly".

There are indications of a number of courts inclosed by large and small clusters of rooms, very irregularly disposed, but with a general trend towards the northeast, being roughly parallel with the mesa edge.

The surrounding clusters are very irregularly disposed, the directions of the prevailing lines of walls greatly varying in different groups.

The downs, the extent of which was large, were composed of hillocks and even of hills, very irregularly distributed.

Barbarians, who gloried in the Gothic name, were irregularly spread from the woody shores of Dalmatia, to the walls of Constantinople.

The dust had been disturbed, irregularly, and the Norths looked at it, puzzled.

Cat, much developed in the fore-quarters, with short, close hair of a bright rufous ground tint from every shade of pale yellow ochre to burnt sienna, with black stripes arranged irregularly and seldom in two individuals alike, the stripes being also irregular in form, from single streaks to loops and broad bands.

Numerous telangiectatic spots were scattered irregularly over the body, but most thickly on the right side, especially on the outer surface of the leg.

In this case, as in others previously reported, there were numerous telangiectatic spots of congestion scattered irregularly over the body.

The whales had irregularly settled bodily down into the blue, thus giving no distantly discernible token of the movement, though from his closer vicinity Ahab had observed it.

The door was swung open, and the party, now reduced to Bradley and five Wieroos, was ushered across the threshold into a large, irregularly shaped room in which a single, giant Wieroo whose robe was solid blue sat upon a raised dais.

My son examined the quadrifid processes in a bladder containing the remains of two crustaceans, and found some of them full of spherical or irregularly shaped masses of matter, which were observed to move and to coalesce.

The closest of these was perhaps five miles away, with others dotted irregularly over the plain behind it, fading into the distance and seeming to get smaller and hazier even in the bright light of the moon.

We have seen that leaves immersed for some hours in dense solutions of sugar, gum, and starch, have the contents of their cells greatly aggregated, and are rendered more or less flaccid, with the tentacles irregularly contorted.

Brooks and Rollins shared a narrow chamber with a single window set just knee-high overlooking the treetops and an irregularly red blinking radio tower to the north.

The spherical glands were still white, but their utricles were broken up into three or four small hyaline spheres, with an irregularly contracted mass in the middle of the basal part.