What does streaky mean?
Streaky means Having streaks..
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/ˈstɹiːki/ · adjective
Having streaks..
Although the two added thirteen important runs, including four byes let through by Mongia and a streaky outside edge cum late-cut by Pollock for four, one didn't need to be blessed with gifts of insight to realise that Pollock's days at the crease were numbered.
...rather than hitting it with the middle of the bat, I jagged it off the inside edge and French-cut it over the top of the stumps for another four. That was the only streaky shot I can remember.
Compton troubled Bradman with his Chinaman, and one streaky shot was edged past Crapp at slips.
It was one of those streaky days you often find at the end of a Kerry winter, with little spurts of cold rain and puffs of chilling wind and now and then glimpses of weak sunshine.
[…] to do his duty in the face of uncommonly streaky weather like a man.
[Nebraska] has a reputation for streaky weather, long stretches of drouth and long seasons of rain.
Jones has always been a streaky hitter
Two goals from Alexis Sánchez, the second a little streakier than the first, were enough to send Arsenal into a second successive FA Cup final, once again following extra time after being held over 90 minutes by a Championship side.
Use streaky when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Streaky means Having streaks..
Common synonyms include streaked, patterned.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Although the two added thirteen important runs, including four byes let through by Mongia and a streaky outside edge cum late-cut by Pollock for four, one didn't need to be blessed with gifts of insight to realise that Pollock's days at the crease were numbered.
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