0 in a way that only exists or happens in some parts or situations: --
The performance started well, went downhill, and continued rather patchily thereafter.
This is a patchily entertaining TV series.
Banking services are patchily distributed in the smaller towns.
Their debut album is patchily impressive.
There are child protection laws, but they are only patchily enforced.
For a while the mobile phone network sprang patchily back to life.
The birds' nesting sites are patchily distributed.