Definition of Blotchily

1. Adverb. In a blotchy manner. ¹

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Definition of Blotchily

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Blotchily

blossoming
blossomings
blossomless
blossoms
blossomy
blot
blot on the escutcheon
blot one's copy book
blot out
blot test
blotch
blotched
blotches
blotchier
blotchiest
blotchily (current term)
blotchiness
blotching
blotchings
blotchy
blote
blotless
blots
blotted
blotted out
blotter
blotters
blottesque
blottier
blottiest

Literary usage of Blotchily

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1908)
"... and stood out blotchily, like colors on a painter's palette, against the grass, and the metallic-looking scrub of arbutus. ln the minute and old-world ..."

2. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1892)
"... little of this color sometimes showing on the outer side of the middle toe; joints and other portions blotchily marked with black; webs solidly black. ..."

3. Concealing-coloration in the Animal Kingdom: An Exposition of the Laws of by Gerald Handerson Thayer, Abbott Handerson Thayer (1909)
"72 and 76) have a dainty and effective pattern, though still more or less of the blotchily speckled type, and are counter-shaded to a nicety; as are, ..."

4. The Mosquitoes of North and Central America and the West Indies by Leland Ossian Howard, Harrison Gray Dyar, Frederick Knab (1917)
"Tracheal tubes invisible ; skin darkly and blotchily pigmented. Air-tube short and stout, slightly more than twice as long as wide, conically tapered ..."

5. Birds by Eugene William Oates, William Thomas Blanford (1889)
"... a collar of white round the neck, interrupted behind by a black longitudinal median stripe; upper breast and sides rufous, blotchily streaked with black ..."

6. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia by Royal Society of South Australia (1903)
"... forming n wide fascia beyond middle (narrowed towards suture) and somewhat blotchily distributed towards base and apex ; scu tellum with white scales. ..."

7. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum by Richard Bowdler Sharpe, British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology (1895)
"... orange-chrome, deepening in part to orange-vermilion ; joints and other portions blotchily marked with black ; webs solidly black" (Trumbull). ..."

8. With the Conquering Turk: Confessions of a Bashibazouk by George Warrington Steevens (1897)
"The lantern fell blotchily on heaps of stable-litter and dim horses half-awakened. Thence we tramped up an open wooden stair, very steep, along the wooden ..."

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