The Collaborative International Dictionary
Faltering \Fal"ter*ing\, a.
Hesitating; trembling. ``With faltering speech.''
--Milton.
-- n. Falter; halting; hesitation. -- Fal"ter*ing*ly, adv.
Wiktionary
adv. In a faltering manner
WordNet
adv. in an unsteady manner; "he walked unsteadily toward the exit"; "The wounded soldier was swinging unsteadily on his legs" [syn: unsteadily, uncertainly] [ant: steadily]
Usage examples of "falteringly".
Inside, I found a glossy brochure full of architects' drawings of happy, slender people strolling around among handsome houses, listening to a chamber orchestra in the room where I formerly watched movies in the company of twitching lunatics, or swimming in an indoor pool sunk into the floor of the great Gothic hall where I had once played badminton and falteringly asked the young nurse from Florence Nightingale for a date, with a distant view, if she could possibly spare the time, of marrying me.
Again there came the massed groans of a multitude, and haltingly, falteringly, by inchmeal the corpse dragged itself upward, desiccated flesh and cartilage and sinew and bone crumbling with the effort.