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spotty
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Word definitions for spotty in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Having spots; spotted. 2 Of inconsistent quality n. A common New Zealand fish, (taxlink Notolabrus celidotus species noshow=1)
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-14c., "marked with spots," from spot (n.) + -y (2). Meaning "unsteady, uneven" is attested from 1932, from a more specific use with reference to painting (1812).
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The spotty , Notolabrus celidotus , is a species of wrasse endemic to the waters around New Zealand and Stewart Island . It can be found on reefs at depths from , though most common in shallower parts of that range. This species can reach in standard length ...
Usage examples of spotty.
The world is too huge a client, and too pervious, too spotty, for a girl to defend against a man.
Churchill was not in mufti of any kindblack jacket, stripy trousers, waistcoat-with-watchchain, spotty bow tie.
Given an abstract reasoning subtest in the ninetieth percentile and spotty school attendance that weakened his knowledge base, I figured it for an underestimate.
And while her success at integrating these levels might be spotty, she had experienced first hand those depths, that higher realm, where the Dreamtime and creative inspiration, the collective and the personal, the zeitgeist and the collective unconscious arise as steps in the same dance.
Avery Knowland, whose attendance at my torts class has grown spotty and who has largely ceased to participate.
The deer was having little trouble finding grass through the spotty layer of snow, and its treasurelike find had it, perhaps, a little less alert than usual.
No one likes meactually most people dislike me instinctively, including my familyI'm not much good at my work, I've never had a girlfriend or a friend of any kind, I've got very little imagination, nothing makes me laugh, I'm fat, poor, bald, I've got a horrible spotty face, constipation, BO, bad breath, no prick, and I'm one inch tall.
There are motels that charge a hundred dollars a month, although I suspect the maid service is spottier than the bedspreads.
So the image is of this er prick indistinguishable from --" "Like Lloyd said," said a very spotty Jewish boy named Arnold Something, his hair also cannibalistically arranged, "it's the hate that it's about.
All the First Hundred’s memories were growing spotty, Michel had noticed, and it seemed to him that most of them recalled their childhoods on Earth better than they did their first years on Mars.
All the First Hundred's memories were growing spotty, Michel had noticed, and it seemed to him that most of them recalled their childhoods on Earth better than they did their first years on Mars.
His cell mate was an old man with a spotty white beard, a career criminal who'd seen many prisons and loved Trumble.
My memory's still as spotty as a Dalmatian dog, but if you feed me the facts, I can write.
My memorys still as spotty as a Dalmatian dog, but if you feed me the facts, I can write.
The notepad was a giveaway from FedEx, and the letterhead stationery on the man’s desk had been printed upon a very spotty dot-matrix printer, probably donated.