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fitfully🔊

Irregularly or unsteadily.

📑 Synonyms: in fits and starts
💬 Quotations
The cabin lamp—taking long swings this way and that— was burning fitfully, and casting fitful shadows upon the old man’s bolted door […]
We shivered miserably throughout the night. Now and again fitfully slept, but the pain of the cold always aroused me.