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Valencia have been erratic of late but mostly the results have held, at least at home.
That roughly paints a picture of history – Kilmarnock as the more prominent and successful club – but Kenny Shiels's men must be wary of complacency, their erratic form aside. Ayr have won the past four League Cup meetings between the teams and have bundled three SPL sides – Inverness, Hearts and St Mirren – out of this season's competition.
His turbulent playing career was marred by clashes with authority, his erratic behaviour and candour quickly marking him out as a 'bad boy'.
Related: Premier League fans' verdicts part 2: Manchester United to West Ham Falcao's decline has been so difficult on the eye that he is now attracting the one thing no footballer ever wants – pity – and there are people at Old Trafford who have started talking about his inadequacies in a way that reminds me of how Alvy Singer, Woody Allen's character, used to excuse Annie Hall's erratic parking.
The DfE is said to fear that erratic marking could damage the credibility of the exams.
The electricity supply is erratic , so businesses and individuals spend fortunes on generators and diesel.
All those people getting cheap laughs on social media out of Kennedy's last erratic performance on the BBC's Question Time, or rejoicing in his defeat on election night, were just a visible example of a culture which not only stigmatises people with mental health problems but treats public figures – politicians or otherwise – as if they were somehow less than human.
He does, though, have a reputation for irate and erratic behaviour.
The risks are that either they don't work, resulting in uncontrolled diabetes, or they may work well, but in an erratic way, causing low blood sugar levels, especially when taken with conventional sugar-lowering drugs such as insulin.
Testimony by prosecution witnesses last week suggested Kaarma was on edge at the time and exhibited erratic behavior due to recent burglaries of his and other Missoula homes.
It will, though, take something for this pitch to change character sufficiently for there has been no pace in it, little evidence of erratic bounce that might have eventuated from any indentations from the first day, no swing and hardly any turn to speak of.
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The primary grammatical function of "erratic" is as an adjective . It modifies nouns to describe something unpredictable, inconsistent, or irregular. Ludwig examples showcase its use in describing scores, form, behavior, and electricity supply.
Expression frequency: Very common
