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Insecurely

Insecurely \In`se*cure"ly\, adv. In an insecure manner.

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insecurely

adv. In an insecure manner.

WordNet
insecurely
  1. adv. in a tentative and self-conscious manner; "she always acts very insecurely in the presence of her father" [ant: securely]

  2. in a manner involving risk; "our positions here at the university are rather insecurely supported by grant money" [ant: securely]

Usage examples of "insecurely".

His insecurely reembodied mind, still aquiver with the sick edginess of its escape from death, bombarded with meaningless facts, now under a new threat of death whose very nature he could not begin to comprehend, went reeling back toward the pit.

Mixing with fast clerks and unsuspecting middle-class profligates, he found out particulars of houses ill guarded, and shops insecurely fastened, and "put up" Blicks's ready ruffians to the more dangerous work.

He leapt on to the fife-rail, but insecurely, falling back with his heel and much of his weight on the first and second toes of Stephen's left foot.

Miss Heliotrope's black poke bonnet with itsnodding purple feathers always seemed to look larger and more imposingthan usual on Sundays, perhaps because of the increased solemnity ofher face inside it, but today it was almost eclipsed in majesty by SirBenjamin's Sunday hat, an enormous mulberry colored tricorne affair thesize of a cartwheel, that sat very insecurely upon the top of his whitepowdered wig, with a tendency to slip rakishly over his left eyewhenever the carriage jolted.