From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Spasmodical \Spas*mod"ic*al\, adjective Same as {Spasmodic}, adjective -- {Spas*mod"ic*al*ly}, adverb
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adverb
1: with spasms; "the mouth was slightly open, and jerked violently and spasmodically at one corner" [syn: {jerkily}]
2: in spurts and fits; "I began to write intermittently and spasmodically"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
66 Moby Thesaurus words for "spasmodically": at haphazard, at intervals, at irregular intervals, at random, brokenly, by catches, by chance, by fits, by jerks, by snatches, capriciously, carelessly, chaotically, desultorily, disconnectedly, discontinuously, eccentrically, erratically, every which way, fitfully, flutteringly, haltingly, haphazardly, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, hit or miss, impulsively, in snatches, in spots, inconsistently, inconstantly, indiscriminately, intermittently, irregularly, jerkily, lurchingly, nonuniformly, off and on, patchily, promiscuously, quakingly, quaveringly, quiveringly, randomly, roughly, saltatorily, shakily, shudderingly, sloppily, sporadically, spottily, tremblingly, tremulously, uncertainly, unequally, unevenly, unmethodically, unpredictably, unrhythmically, unsteadily, unsystematically, ununiformly, variably, waveringly, whimsically, wobblingly
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