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Adverb: spasmodically  spaz'mó-di-k(u-)lee
  1. With spasms
    "the mouth was slightly open, and jerked violently and spasmodically at one corner";
    - jerkily
     
  2. In spurts and fits
    "I began to write intermittently and spasmodically"

Encyclopedia: Spasmodically