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Answer for the clue "Hit or miss ", 7 letters:
erratic

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Erratic \Er*rat"ic\, a. [L. erraticus, fr. errare to wander: cf. F. erratique. See Err .] Having no certain course; roving about without a fixed destination; wandering; moving; -- hence, applied to the planets as distinguished from the fixed stars. The ...

Usage examples of erratic.

She tottered after several aflight and erratic cards, stepping out of her step-in mules.

The service can be erratic and buses are sometimes delayed, but there is a stop at the end of the road and I rarely have to wait more than five minutes.

Angus led the old garron to the place called Clachan Knowe where big erratic boulders sprouted from the heather like henge-stones.

The Demesne absolute of a Seer is small, a few paces across, and the power use is erratic.

His erratic but distinctive Talent, however, made known the presence of a number of approaching sentients by detecting and conveying what they were feeling directly to his empathetic mind.

And watching her erratic walk, Hawes was certain that the liquid in her hand was not the high explosive she claimed it was.

Certain fish and toads that live in desert regions hibernate for long years, until the erratic rainfall returns and summons them back to life.

The unnerving tension of expecting it every second made them erratic and nervous to the nth degree.

First operation, spreading of rumours that the erratic Osmond was a drug addict.

If the tiny muscles attached to them are damaged, or if the nerves leading to those muscles are, the ossicle movements become somewhat erratic.

For apart from his faculty of speech, his voluntary motor reflexesand even those were erratic, though Nixie said that would passand the unconscious regulatory functions that his brain supported, everything in his nervous system that had once contributed to the identity of Hans Baumer had apparently been completely obliterated.

Her heart rhumbaed, salsaed, and slow-grooved in her chest, igniting an erratic flow of blood to her body parts.

Meanwhile her guardian was busy rucking up the legs of the bloomers and drawers beneath to expose the shapely, plump round thighs in their sheer silken sheaths, and lone wailed and squirmed over the dome, her magnificent young bosom in erratic upheaval.

Of all the men who relied on their ruggedness to carry them through, Brennon was the most wide open, the most erratic.

The coil of wire on the deck behind him was three hundred feet long, but because the bottom was shoaly and erratic, they had set the sensor at only fifty feet.