infrequent
In general, dogs need baths infrequently.
A significant number of students read poorly and infrequently.
If you go to dinner parties as infrequently as I do, it is a real treat when you do.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Rarely & infrequently
(every) now and then/againidiom
blue moon
day
episodic
ever and anon
few
fit
it's not every day (that)...idiom
like ships that pass in the nightidiom
occasion
occasional
occasionally
odd
one and doneidiom
one-off
one-shot
one-time
rarely
stop-go
ultra-rare

Examples of infrequently

infrequently
That reputation also attracts students, who are not infrequently a major source of income for the teacher.
Students often have little or no experience with public policy and probably are only infrequently offered encouragement on such topics.
The reason for merging some parts of speech is that they occur so infrequently that relating rules can never be estimated reliably.
As for the technology itself, patients and parents found remote consultations acceptable as long as transmission difficulties did not arise, which happened very infrequently (35).
A cutoff is necessary, as there are many unique words that occur infrequently.
Some procedures are based on the work and example of a dear, trusted, and, not infrequently, revered colleague.
Our findings suggest that political discussion is infrequently public, modestly contested and sometimes marred by inequality.
Canons, being brief, are often on unlabelled single leaves, easily mislabelled or misplaced and not infrequently disappearing into private collections.
Because third person forms were used so infrequently by the residents, they were not included in further comparisons.
Chronic infection, over a period of months, was relatively infrequently encountered.
These entries appeared infrequently and suddenly, and generally seemed out of context from the -ow of the diaries' writing style.
Secondly, the author too infrequently stands back to place postwar developments in their full historical or conceptual perspective.
Among other barriers not infrequently mentioned is the reluctance of patients to accurately report the nature, severity, and duration of their pain.
Initially, these involved informal fora of sectoral public and private actors, who met infrequently and had no formal powers or organisation.
Such visual material has only infrequently been employed by the historian of the family.
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