adjective
Other Word Forms
- blotchily adverb
- blotchiness noun
Etymology
Origin of blotchy
Example Sentences
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Besides causing flu-like symptoms, including high fever and blotchy, red rash, measles can cause serious long-term damage to the body’s immune system, weakening its ability to fight new infections.
From Salon • Dec. 11, 2025
But the whale’s skin was blotchy, and if it were a right whale, something would have been wrong.
From New York Times • Mar. 6, 2024
The temperature of the CMB varies ever so slightly across the sky, providing a blotchy snapshot of the universe at the moment neutral atoms formed, 380,000 years after the big bang.
From Science Magazine • Oct. 31, 2023
The resulting images show the prince with blond ringlets, wearing a white shirt, and with blotchy patches on his skin.
From BBC • Aug. 17, 2023
He shuffles forward, his face bright red, and holds the rungs so tightly that his hands turn blotchy and purple.
From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth
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