irregularly

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He rhymes irregularly, at choice, and makes his verses long or short, as pleases him.

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  1. In an irregular manner; without rule, method, or order.

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  • Considering that he had borrowed from her a couple of thousand pounds—over fifty thousand francs—and that the sum he had paid her irregularly was not five per cent interest on the money, this request was not unreasonable. —  Balzac
  • Distant clanking and banging sounded irregularly, as cars were blocked and shifted in the acres around them. —  AHMM,June2007
  • Nearly all the current solutions of unemployment leave the faucet running The heart of the problem, the cause, one might well say, of unemployment, is that the employment of men regularly or irregularly is at no time an important consideration of those minds which control industry. —  An American Idyll
  • News from the outside world came to us very irregularly, and often in distorted form, so that we began to think we might get involved in a conflict not only with Mexico, but with England also. —  Roosevelt in the Bad Lands
  • He rhymes irregularly, at choice, and makes his verses long or short, as pleases him. —  Classic French Course in English
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