spotty

About 0.42 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Having spots; spotted.
2. adjective Occurring in non-contiguous positions or locations.

   Mobile phone reception in this area tends to be rather spotty.

3. adjective Of inconsistent quality.

   Many of the buyers had a spotty credit history.

4. adjective Inconsistent: not reliably good, sometimes bad.

   Many of the low-cost accessories (cords, chargers, etc) sold in the dollar store had spotty quality.

5. noun A common New Zealand fish, Notolabrus celidotus

   I went fishing today and all I caught were spotties.

Similar words

inconsistent uneven patchy skewed macular intermittent sporadic inequitable unequal spottish

Often followed by

and at in record or distribution appearance but face

Word family

spottier spottiest spottily spottiness spottinesses