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irregular or unpredictable

erratic = irregular or unpredictable

erratic = irregular or unpredictable

Algernon's behavior is becoming erratic again.
Daniel Keyes -- Flowers for Algernon — Novel

erratic = irregular or unpredictable

She was furious, and when she was furious Calpurnia's grammar became erratic.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

erratic = irregular

But, as Burt pointed out at the convention, his behavior is erratic.
Daniel Keyes -- Flowers for Algernon — Novel

erratic = irregular or unpredictable

It's also possible that this erratic behavior is unique to Algernon.
Daniel Keyes -- Flowers for Algernon — Novel

erratic = irregular or unpredictable

He walked erratically, as if his right legs were shorter than his left legs.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

erratically = in an irregular manner

When someone from the audience asked Burt if he was suggesting that this erratic behavior was directly caused by increased intelligence, Burt ducked the question.
Daniel Keyes -- Flowers for Algernon — Novel

erratic = irregular or unpredictable

It is possible that both the increased intelligence and the erratic behavior at this level were created by the original surgery, instead of one being a function of the other.
Daniel Keyes -- Flowers for Algernon — Novel

erratic = irregular or unpredictable

When he found himself moving along the unfamiliar path, he slowed down, and his actions became erratic: start, pause, double back, turn around and then forward again, until finally he was in the cul-de-sac that informed him with a mild shock that he had made a mistake.
Daniel Keyes -- Flowers for Algernon — Novel

erratic = irregular or unpredictable

Bad in that nervous armed men did erratic things, and were thus hard to predict.
David Baldacci -- Zero Day
His expressive features kindled up, as he recognized the spot where this trifling incident of his erratic life had chanced.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The House of the Seven Gables
The cops said he was driving erratically.
Malcolm Gladwell -- Blink
Some erratic impulse prompted Ethan to say: "How'd you like me to take you down now?"
Edith Wharton -- Ethan Frome
The perceptions come without warnings or explanations, erratic as lightning.
Christina Garcia -- Dreaming in Cuban
Worsening Kate's mood, if that was possible, was a distant, irritating beeping sound, the erratic honking of a faraway horn.
Trenton Lee Stewart -- The Mysterious Benedict Society
"This thing I do, it's faulty, it's erratic!
Stephenie Meyer -- Breaking Dawn
Between the third and fourth day, my mood jumped back and forth erratically from wild exhilaration to gloomy apprehension.
Chaim Potok -- The Chosen
His hands shook and his behavior was erratic.
James Bradley -- Flags of Our Fathers
Her tapping speeded up and its beat became erratic and nervous.
John Steinbeck -- East of Eden

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