0 in a way that often stops and starts and is not regular or continuous:
She slept fitfully.
The rescue plan has progressed fitfully in recent weeks.
Possible answers to this question emerge only fitfully.
By experiencing manly behavior as an instinctive expression of his body, the barbaric hero finds his fulfillment suddenly, fitfully, in moments of stress.
Events moved more slowly and fitfully in the southern province.
By the 1990s, this hypothesis was only fitfully espoused by most creolists, due in part to problems with sociological plausibility and discrepancies in historical documentation.
Then, often fitfully, administrators established district-level law panels (divided when necessary into different ethnic sections).
