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Patchy   /pˈætʃi/   Listen
Patchy

adjective
1.
Irregular or uneven in quality, texture, etc..  "Patchy fog"






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"Patchy" Quotes from Famous Books



... sharp minor is the more interesting. The Aria is a movement of exquisite simplicity and tenderness, and the Scherzo, with its Intermezzo alla burla, has life and character. But the Allegro, which follows the poetical introduction, and the Finale are patchy, and at times laboured. It must not, however, be supposed that they are uninteresting. The music has poetry and passion, and the strong passages atone for the weak ones. There were composers at that time who could ...
— The Pianoforte Sonata - Its Origin and Development • J.S. Shedlock

... constructive; his sense of design was rather stiff and occasionally somewhat archaic in character; his handling and modelling, if broad and courageous, were insufficiently supported by knowledge; his colour was apt to be dull and monotonous, or, when breaking from that, patchy and crude in its more definite notes which do not fuse ...
— Raeburn • James L. Caw

... you've fared," he said, and then, to the diversion of Brown of the Bulls, Cheon and Happy Dick rejoiced together over the brimming water-butts, and mourned because the billabong had not done better, regretting the while that the showers were so "patchy." ...
— We of the Never-Never • Jeanie "Mrs. Aeneas" Gunn



Words linked to "Patchy" :   patchiness, patch, uneven



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