patchily
advEtymology From patchy + -ly.
1
In a patchy manner.
- Hawkins, Lewis and Hankin are placed in the Diachronic category due to their attempt at a historical perspective, even though that is very patchily executed.2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes, page 310:
- Synonyms
- sporadically