Synonyms for blotchy

Grammar : Adj

Spell : bloch-ee

Phonetic Transcription : ˈblɒtʃ i

Définition of blotchy

Origin : 1799, from blotch + -y (2). Related: Blotchiness.

adj discolored in spots

Example sentences :

Their faces were mottled and blotchy and their eyes were rolling beseechingly.
Extract from : « Larson's Luck » by Gerald Vance

He wore a ragged black coat, and he had a blotchy, red face.
Extract from : « Roderick Hudson » by Henry James

His face was red and blotchy, with a network of little purple veins on the cheeks, and his features were sunk into its fatness.
Extract from : « The Trembling of a Leaf » by William Somerset Maugham

He was blotchy and his eyes seemed heavy; moreover, he was without a drink, and I correctly guessed that he had no money.
Extract from : « The Chequers » by James Runciman

By and by appeared the faint lights of the house, with blotchy pallors thinning the mist and darkness.
Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald

The varnish did not look "blotchy" or patched, as it would have done had the ends of the varnish lapped.
Extract from : « The Library of Work and Play: Mechanics, Indoors and Out » by Fred T. Hodgson

If you can cure yourself of that blotchy skin and that rheumatic gait, someone might believe you.
Extract from : « The sop for Children » by sop

It is supposed to be a clouded animal—not stripy, but blotchy, like a tortoise-shell tom-cat.
Extract from : « The Day's Work, Volume 1 » by Rudyard Kipling

(f.) The color changes from silvery to various shades of black and red or blotchy, according to the species.
Extract from : « Scientific American Supplement No. 275 » by Various

The blue-back turns rosy red, the dog salmon a dull, blotchy red, and the quiunat generally blackish.
Extract from : « Scientific American Supplement No. 275 » by Various

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