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erratically
[ ih-rat-ik-lee ]
adverb
- in a way that deviates from what is normal or proper:
When other employees noticed she was behaving erratically, the store installed cameras and caught her stealing pills.
- without any definite direction or pattern; in an irregular or inconsistent way:
The cyclone moved erratically westward and southward for two days while slowly strengthening into a tropical storm.
Since I was fourteen I've kept a journal, albeit somewhat erratically at times.
Other Words From
- non·er·rat·i·cal·ly adverb
Word History and Origins
Origin of erratically1
Example Sentences
In addition to sharing his dreams, Pauli opened up about his emotional turmoil, erratic behavior, alcohol dependency, and issues dealing with women.
Only child systems and planets with more erratic paths hint at past planetary sibling clashes violent enough to knock orbits askew, or even lead to banishment.
Yet a series of events — his own erratic health, his caddie’s positive coronavirus test — have left him with uneven results headed into this Masters.
Cruz’s lawyers came to suspect Simpson had been ill during what they said was her erratic handling of the case, and have now filed in both federal and state court seeking to have her denial of Cruz’s bid for freedom vacated.
The number of deaths was used as a proxy for the total number of cases, as the erratic availability of tests made the true infection rate difficult to determine.
Almost daily, a news report will surface of a young teen who acted erratically while using fake pot.
Instead, he found that they developed erratically and sometimes experienced periods of dormancy before reawakening.
Kids with guns fire erratically toward their rivals, and innocent bystanders get killed.
“Troubled” is a word we often apply to stars like Lindsay Lohan, and now Amanda Bynes, when they begin behaving erratically.
Another group of wardens turned down the same road and saw a white truck driving erratically at a high rate of speed towardthem.
They found a place where saltpeter was very thinly and erratically distributed.
Meanwhile the gravity potentiometer (gravy board) was changing its reading constantly and erratically.
The plane returned: it was flying low, and it swerved erratically as it flew.
My uncle took us to and fro showing us over his London, talking erratically, following a route of his own.
The flat pointed head seems to be in contact with the ground or very near to it as the animal moves about rapidly and erratically.
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