Crossword clues for unevenly
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Uneven \Un*e"ven\, a. [AS. unefen. See Un- not, and Even, a.]
Not even; not level; not uniform; rough; as, an uneven road or way; uneven ground.
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Not equal; not of equal length.
Hebrew verse consists of uneven feet.
--Peacham. Not divisible by two without a remainder; odd; -- said of numbers; as, 3, 7, and 11 are uneven numbers. [1913 Webster] Un*e"ven*ly, adv. -- Un*e"ven*ness, n.
Wiktionary
adv. 1 In an uneven or haphazard manner. 2 In an unequal manner.
WordNet
adv. in an uneven and irregular way [ant: evenly]
in a ragged uneven manner; "I took the cigarette he offered, drawing at it raggedly" [syn: raggedly]
in an unequal or partial manner; "profits were distributed unevenly"; "angry at being dealt with so unequally" [syn: unequally] [ant: evenly, evenly]
Usage examples of "unevenly".
Three stools sat unevenly on the stone floor, and a longish bench moldered into the ground outside the door.
The surfaces themselves were pitted and rough from melting and refreezing unevenly over the years, and a few small tenacious plants had actually taken root on the ice.
The walls, unevenly transparent, repeated a motif of wing cases and bulbous abdomens, spikey brown limbs folded in at regular intervals.
The white-shirted engineer shouted at the stirrers to continue lest the concrete set unevenly, but he permitted the bearers to drop their heavy sacks where they stood and congregate toward the great doors, where the lunch wagon already waited.
Unless the mower is thus used, under such conditions the seed will ripen unevenly in the grazed and ungrazed portions of the same.
On the easel a large unprimed canvas rested, somewhat unevenly due to the cant of a floor slanted enough that you could drop a marble in the kitchen and watch it roll slowly but inexorably to settle in the left-hand comer of the living room.
The gaunt old room that had entertained so many guests, emptied of its last one, with nothing but the faint chill that had come through the opened window to remind one of their presencethe fitful light of the two candles that had begun spluttering in the tall brass sticksBrutus with quiet adroitness clearing away the bottles and the dishesand a sudden burst of flame from the back log in the fireplace that made his shadow jump unevenly over the opposite walland my father resting languidly in his chair again, quite as though nothing had happenedI remember looking about me and almost doubting that anything out of the ordinary had passed in the last five minutes.
His black hair was longish and unevenly cut so that elflocks stuck out from under his paint store gimme cap.
An unevenly dyed, loose black tunic showed the first signs of wear at the cuffs and elbows.
Except that it resembled an unrimmed, unevenly spoked wheel, its function put me in mind of the Pentagon and the unreality of this adventure bore down on me again.
These conversers formed this triad on an unevenly sloped divan of leather-colored plastic across the room, which was now more airless yet from the roiling steam from the kitchen, infiltrating.
Her own hair was growing in vigorously if unevenly, and Teka one day combed it out from a center spot at the top of her skull and cut in a neat arch around her face, for it was no longer curly.
Letting the force of the swing carry me, I let go the climbing rope and plunge through the unevenly shaped but wide opening.
But the principal face of the church remained of rough, unevenly spaced, earth-colored brick, obviously uncompleted.
A tracery of silvery lines stitched out electric currents, crackling unevenly through the salty fluid.