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What is the adjective for streaked?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb streak which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

streaky
  1. Having streaks.
  2. (cricket) Used to describe a shot where the ball deflects off the edge of the bat, but is not caught by the slips or wicket-keeper and instead results in runs for the batsman.
  3. (Canada) Having alternating periods of good and bad performances; inconsistent.
  4. (soccer) Not well-executed, due to luck more than skill.
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  6. Examples:
    1. “The subtle, streaky surface is far more appealing to me than the painting I removed.”
      “Try adding cheese or streaky bacon, a dollop of thick yoghurt or creme fraiche.”
      “I don't want to be white, and I have used fake tans before but they came out streaky.”
streaked
streakless
  1. Without streaks or stripes.
streaklike
  1. Resembling a streak or some aspect of one.
streakier
  1. comparative form of streaky: more streaky
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Austin, 43, is also one of the streakier players in golf, capable of long binges of birdies and bogeys alike.”
      “The left-hander is one of the streakier players around but when it all gels, as it did against Roddick, he is world class.”
      “Jennings scored a boundary his legs then an streakier one off the edge only to be lbw two deliveries later.”
streakiest
  1. superlative form of streaky: most streaky
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The ball swung from Kobe Bryant to LeBron James to Kevin Durant to Carmelo Anthony, from the old man to the new king, from the new king to his likely successor, from the likely successor to the streakiest scorer of them all.”
      “Rory McAllister is one of the streakiest strikers in action to notch for the fifth match running is 2-1 at McBookie.”
      “He got there with the streakiest of his 11 boundaries, an edge through the slips off Jerome Taylor.”
streaking
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