fitfully

fitful | American Dictionary

fitful
adjective
us/ˈfɪt·fəl/
going off and on irregularly:
Her breathing is fitful.

Examples of fitful

fitful
The throbbing stream echoes the pulsing rhythms of the "tumultuous seas," and an ordered metrical structure governs what had at first appeared fitful rhythmic motions.
Nevertheless, the government carried on with its fitful campaigns of prosecution.
They were worn out by years of fighting and frustrated by the indecisiveness of the fitful campaigns.
In short, such religions aren't ' fitful ' on my account, for they have no practices that constitute fit.
As these analysts suggest, this process is fitful, not linear and, as such, is not part of the standard internalist story.
The politics of opposition were somewhat fitful during this period, with political associations never really taking off.
What followed was a haphazard process of announced economic adjustment, followed by fitful implementation and calls for more private-sector investment.
The fitful and irregular incidents of the market cannot for the greater part be reduced to order, and brought directly within the grasp of scientific machinery.
If workers who were paid according to production gained more from this fitful, even speculative, extension of the working day, those who worked for fixed wages were exploited more intensively.
The incidence of this tax is arbitrary and fitful.
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