SPOTTILY Synonyms: 48 Similar and Opposite Words

spottily

adverb

Definition of spottily

as in intermittently

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Adverb

Williams intermittently cuts to ominous exterior shots of a dark church and layers in a score of hymnal lament.

— Ritesh Mehta, IndieWire, 15 Sep. 2026
There’s no way to know, so Pochettino must explore other options intermittently.

— Henry Bushnell, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of intermittently

Adverb

The participants in the meditation group slept more fitfully, with more frequent awakenings, than those who didn’t meditate.

— Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, 4 Sep. 2026
Martin Filler The Met’s new Tristan und Isolde was a vocal triumph for Lise Davidsen and Michael Spyres, but Yuval Sharon’s staging only fitfully captured the essence of Wagner’s masterpiece.

— The New York Review of Books, The New York Review of Books, 23 May 2026

Definition of fitfully

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The prospect of Helen Mirren playing the legendary author Patricia Highsmith at her most unpredictably misanthropic should be enough of a selling point for A Talent for Murder.

— Joe Reid, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2026
How these two segments smash together so unpredictably and imaginatively makes this yet another new horror film that thinks outside of the box.

— Randy Myers, Mercury News, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of unpredictably

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And, fortuitously for would-be sponsors, something happened in tennis that made these arrangements even more appealing.

— Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026
The earnings announcement was fortuitously timed, coming just as reports were surfacing of high-level OpenAI employees joining the company.

— Jordan Novet, CNBC, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of fortuitously

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There’s also evidence that some mimicry happens unconsciously.

— Alesandra Dubin, Glamour, 17 Sep. 2026
Perhaps the actions of England’s peasantry made such a formative impression on young Greengrass that he was unconsciously drawn to other stories with a similar thematic undercurrent.

— Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of unconsciously

Adverb

Additional autonomous cyberattacks were disclosed by Anthropic and Meta in recent months, though in those cases the models had been granted internet access either intentionally or inadvertently.

— Max Zahn, ABC News, 16 Sep. 2026
Three goals up, and pushing for more, Ilias Chair’s high press inadvertently serves up the perfect cross for Lyndon Dykes, completely unmarked, six yards out.

— Amitai Winehouse, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026

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