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shakily

adv. In a shaky manner.

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shakily
  1. adv. in an insecurely shaky manner; "this theory is rather shakily supported by some obscure data"

  2. in a manner characterized by trembling or shaking; "`I--I'm going to make you a cup of tea', she explained shakily"

Usage examples of "shakily".

Muttering every vile word he knew, he shakily refastened his trousers, while the distraught maid skittishly smoothed her black skirt into its proper position.

I did so shakily, rubbing my strained knuckles and watching Bluebeard as he leaned against his desk, one calfskin-booted leg crossing the other.

Plum rose from where she had been clutching the closestool, shakily wiping her face with a damp cloth.

After a while, when he heard the first cheers from the quad of the first bout of the smoker, he showered and put on a clean uniform and went down shakily and out through the empty dayroom over to the Post Beergarden.

I watched them go shakily into the hotel and thought uncomplicated thoughts, like hoping Datepalm would cover himself with glory for them, and Dozen Roses also, once he could jump.

And when Olivia got up somewhat shakily later that week, she knew that all the ghosts that had visited her for days in her dreams had been only that .

While Thum shakily knelt, Dain drew Truthseeker and held it aloft in the sunlight.

He snagged his shut on the barbed wire, cursed softly, unsnagged himself, and straightened shakily beside his partner.

I reached for a cigarette and lit it shakily, and pulled the bedclothes around me.

One of them, a slender, small woman in a loose-fitting dress, looked around, spotted MacDonald, and made her way shakily to him.

Applequist nervously fitted the new power pack in place, screwed the leads tight, clamped the corroded shield over it, and then got shakily to his feet.

As Chuck watched, the envoy stirred, pulled his claw back into normal position, and got shakily up on all four legs.

He whined and shivered, and my young blood mixed on his slavering chops with gamey saliva and thick eye-mucus as he girned and looked shakily and pleadingly up at my father, who picked him up and strangled him.

Kerrick pushed her gross weight from him and climbed shakily to his feet.

He stood upright, shakily, hooted and shrieked, and threw handfuls of leaves.