Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or character of being spotty.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state or quality of being spotty.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable The state or quality of being
spotty . - noun countable The result or product of being
spotty .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The spottiness of 4G stems at least in part from the measured approach carriers have taken to it, rolling out the service city by city.
Fast Phones, Dead Batteries Greg Bensinger 2012
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About 2 out of 5 adolescents have tooth streaking or spottiness because of too much fluoride, a surprising government study found recently.
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About 2 out of 5 adolescents have tooth streaking or spottiness because of too much fluoride, a surprising government study found recently.
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The influential evolutionary biologist John Maynard Smith coined the culinary term “primordial pizza” to capture the spottiness of this idea.
SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011
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Like most autodidacts and truth be told, many PhDs, my own education is uneven, only its spottiness is driven by curiosity and desire instead of the deficiencies of a preset curriculum.
Hunger to Learn 2010
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The other phenomenon here is a demonstration of the spottiness of the fossil record.
Tetrapods are older than we thought! - The Panda's Thumb 2010
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Time and again over this last year and a half, as I finished the book and then fielded relatives 'and friends' reactions to it, I confronted the spottiness of memory, but not the spottiness I had expected to confront.
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I should apologize for the spottiness of the "A Day" part of "Dress A Day" lately -- lots of travel.
July 2008 2008
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I should apologize for the spottiness of the "A Day" part of "Dress A Day" lately -- lots of travel.
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I love the running ink and spottiness and the vintage western look you get with this technique and stamp set.
Playing with Ink Sarah Moore 2007
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