Adverb
in a fitful manner
Source: WordNetOn any longer view, man is only fitfully committed to the rational - to thinking, seeing, learning, knowing. Believing is what he's really proud of. Martin Amis
...We cannot think first and act afterwards. From the moment of birth we are immersed in action and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought. Alfred North Whitehead
he slept fitfully Source: Internet
At best, his latest might be a wry and fitfully charming exercise. Source: Internet
In Monterrey, the business capital that sits amid gray deserts in northern México, Conchalupe’s seventy-three-year-old mother and her sister Beatriz slept equally fitfully. Source: Internet
On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep, Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses? Source: Internet