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spasmodically
adverb
uk /spæzˈmɒd.ɪ.kəl.i/ us /spæzˈmɑː.dɪ.kəl.i/
for short periods of time and not in a regular way:
Letters from my sister arrived spasmodically and rarely in the right order.
During the next sixteen years, minor earthquakes continued to shake the area spasmodically.
Related word
spasmodic
John sat down in front of the television and changed the channels spasmodically.
He has worked only spasmodically in the past ten years but always manages to keep going financially.
From the age of nine, Proust suffered spasmodically but severely from asthma.
You won't find success if you train only spasmodically.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Frequency & regularity - general words
(as) regular as clockworkidiom
-ly
clockwork
endemically
erratic
erratically
fitful
irregular
irregularity
irregularly
like clockworkidiom
many
on and offidiom
on-off
periodic
periodically
prevalence
religiously
unsynchronized
would
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