spotty

Modifies a noun

• teenager: To a spotty little teenager growing up in the back streets of Islington these were heady times.
• youth: Don't be conned into buying a digital tuner from a spotty youth who mainly sells washing machines.
• dog: Players role the... £ 19.50 Qty Spotty Dog Game Let these spotty dogs help children learn how to count.
• skin: Dry or spotty skin may also mean you're not getting enough of this vitamin.
• kid: Spotty kid at the back took his Walkman headphones off.
• boy: I also wanted to meet the girl but she had looked too lovely to be interested in a shy spotty English boy.

Modifying Another Word

• very: More woe: because transparency is set by the top left pixel, the pretend icon can look very spotty on some backgrounds.
• somewhat: It does perhaps appear somewhat spotty to the naked eye but under a lens is clearly seen to be very hairy or scaled.
• rather: I have trusted my rather spotty memory of studying this area to carry us through.
• not: Were you a sporty ( sporty, not spotty ) teenager?
• pretty: I thought Lou's albums were pretty spotty after Street Hassle and before The Blue Mask.
• quite: I was told I had the classic cysts on my ovaries & I also struggled to lose weight & was quite spotty.

Used with adjective complement

• become: I threw them in the air, and as they fell to the floor, the silk magically became spotty.
• get: Wouldn't his skin actually be the thing that gets spotty?