patchy
The birds' nesting sites are patchily distributed.
The sunlight streamed patchily through the dirty windows.
For a while the mobile phone network sprang patchily back to life.
The strike was only patchily supported.
There are child protection laws, but they are only patchily enforced.
Their debut album is patchily impressive.
Waterford played patchily to defeat Laois.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Rough, irregular and uneven
abrasion
abrasive
abrasiveness
arrhythmic
bumpy
jag
jagged
jaggedly
jaggy
jerky
pockmarked
raggedly
raggedness
raggedy
roughness
rugged
scratchy
unsteady
wonkiness
wonky

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Incomplete
Changing frequently
Quite good, or not very good