Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Full of blots.
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- adjective Characterised or
ridden withblots orblemishes .
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Examples
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Ten minutes later Hootchinoo Bill and Kink Mitchell were roused from their blankets by a wild-eyed Swede that strove to force upon them an ink-scrawled and very blotty piece of paper.
Too Much Gold 2010
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Ten minutes later Hootchinoo Bill and Kink Mitchell were roused from their blankets by a wild-eyed Swede that strove to force upon them an ink-scrawled and very blotty piece of paper.
TOO MUCH GOLD 2010
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Over a greasy New Orleans Saints T-shirt, he wore a thin black leather jacket with the sleeves rolled up to reveal arms covered with what Skip immediately recognized as prison tattoos, blue, black, and blotty.
The Lampshade Mark Jacobson 2010
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I was using a piece of plastic instead of an actual squeegee to apply the paint -- the frames are tiny, only 3 "x5", and my squeegee's 9 "-- and it didn't really work, coming out blotty and incomplete, so now I need to drop $6 for a 3" squeegee.
oatcake Diary Entry oatcake 2005
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The sun had come, and queer blotty shadows were on the hills beyond the water.
The Plumed Serpent 2003
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What are those three blotty dits on the map where nothing ever happens?
Two For The Lions Davis, Lindsey 1998
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A little girl who was sitting in the row in front of me had lent me her copy of the play a moment before, and now, absorbed in Dr. Furness's argument, I forgot the book wasn't mine and began scrawling controversial notes in it with my very thick and blotty fountain pen.
The Story of My Life Terry, Ellen, Dame, 1847-1928 1908
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Ten minutes later Hootchinoo Bill and Kink Mitchell were roused from their blankets by a wild-eyed Swede that strove to force upon them an ink-scrawled and very blotty piece of paper.
Too Much Gold 1904
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Besides, their blotty-looking outlines bore no semblance to the form of
The Border Boys Across the Frontier John Henry Goldfrap 1898
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She dashed off her description of the Convent kettledrum, and added the paragraphs we know of, each one accentuated by an explosion of asterisks, and gave the blotty sheets to Young Evans, who combined in his sole person the offices of sub-editor, engineer, chief-compositor, feeder, and devil.
The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897
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