uneven
This unevenly acted production needs a more disciplined staging.
The play was performed unevenly by a cast of 36, of whom only eight are professional actors.
It is an unevenly successful, often predictable piece of theatre.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Quite good, or not very good
acceptable
acceptably
adequacy
adequate
adequately
goodish
government
half decent
iffy
impure
passable
passably
patchily
patchiness
patchy
scratch
spotty
the/your average bearidiom
up to scratchidiom
weedy

Examples of unevenly

unevenly
Inevitably such a large collection of essays sprawls unevenly in quality as well as in topic and theme.
The utilization is somewhat unevenly distributed across geographical areas and patient groups.
However, since these compilations represent excerpts from accounts which are unevenly conserved, any attempt at counting words or other exercises in quantification are superfluous.
Jobbers and workers found that, step by painful step, their material interests, social experience and political perceptions were tending gradually and unevenly to converge.
The wealth accumulated by industrialization had always been unevenly spread both geographically and socially.
Unfortunately, the unevenly distributed and generally rare planktonic foraminiferal assemblages do not allow a quantitative analysis.
These skills and resources are likely to be associated with class and cultural divisions and to be unevenly distributed.
At present the only certainty is that privatization statutes were applied unevenly, over the course of decades, with inconsistent results.
In other words, social groups and regions have unevenly bene®ted from an increasingly market-oriented economy.
Determining why patients access hospice care so unevenly seems a worthier area of study than being concerned with forced choice by governmental agencies.
This variability may have been due to sliding of unevenly woven yarn.
As the maps clearly show, lootings were unevenly distributed in broad geographical terms.
The payroll tax is unevenly shared between employer and employee.
Mechanisation occurred very unevenly across departments, with harvesting very atypical.
The second result, a caveat to the first, is that the gains from trade are unevenly distributed within each country.
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