infrequently

a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

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infrequent (ɪnˈfriːkwənt)

—*adj*
	rarely happening or present; only occasional

in'frequency

—n

in'frequence

—n

in'frequently

—*adv*

infrequent (ɪnˈfriːkwənt)

—*adj*
	rarely happening or present; only occasional

in'frequency

—n

in'frequence

—n

in'frequently

—*adv*

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infrequent

1531, from L. infrequentem (nom. infrequens) "occurring seldom, unusual," from in- "not" + frequens (see frequent).

Example sentences

Folks who incorrectly or infrequently cite other authors whose work they are

presenting as their own.

Eventually, every single system would fail, not infrequently accompanied by the

smell of burning wires.

Yet beyond that it comes up infrequently and receives little attention.

Truth is too infrequently spoken baldly to power, even in places where there is

no cost or sanction for doing so.

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"If we have largely forgotten the physical discomforts of the itching, oppressive garments of the past ... then we have mercifully forgotten, too, the smells of the past, the domestic odours—ill-washed flesh; infrequently changed underwear; chamber-pots; slop-pails; inadequately plumbed privies; rotting food; unattended teeth; and the streets are no fresher than indoors, the omnipresent acridity of horse piss and dung, drains, the sudden stench of old death from butchers' shops, the amniotic horror of the fishmonger."

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