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UK
/spˈɒti/
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[ US /ˈspɑti/ ]
[ US /ˈspɑti/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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having spots or patches (small areas of contrasting color or texture)
a field patched with ice and snow
a black-and-white spotted cow
the wall had a spotty speckled effect -
lacking consistency
the golfer hit the ball well but his putting was spotty
How To Use spotty In A Sentence
- To answer the 300-odd posers on the questionnaire without then being persuaded to sign up for the religion was an essential rite-of-passage for any spotty adolescent struggling to find their own voice.
- The bed was rickety, with a thin knotty mattress; the sand-colored walls were scratched and gouged; in every corner, under everything, were fluffy dust and cigar ashes; on the tilted wash-stand was a nicked and squatty pitcher; the only chair was a grim straight object of spotty varnish; but there was an altogether splendid gilt and rose cuspidor. Main Street
- They might be like fat people you see in elevators, the spotty people at the beach, the sour people in parking lots.
- So, too, we should whenever practicable lay on our colours in washes; if we begin with stippling our drawings they will be "niggling," and will be sure to look poor and "spotty. Little Folks (December 1884) A Magazine for the Young
- The lode proved to be spotty, showing just marginal copper mineralization.
- A spotty youth with greasy black hair, he was sitting at the table with a peevish expression on his weaselly face.
- On the night I call at his house, his spotty face and bleached hair greet me at the door. Times, Sunday Times
- Especially if the spotty youths are playing Autumn Leaves at the time. Times, Sunday Times
- As was the case on the Season One release, video quality on this disc is a little spotty.
- While Fringe is powerfully affecting, this week's Supernatural in the same time period, aggravatingly enough is ridiculously entertaining, a welcome satirical change of pace from the grim events of this so-far-spotty post-apocalyptic sixth season. Roush Review: Fringe, Supernatural, Spartacus: Friday Night Lights Up