Crossword clues for nervously
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nervously \Nerv"ous*ly\, adv. In a nervous manner.
Wiktionary
adv. In a nervous manner; with nervosity; in a way that displays nervousness.
WordNet
adv. in an anxiously nervous manner; "we watched the stock market nervously"
with nervous excitement; "our bodies jumped nervously away at the slightest touch"
Usage examples of "nervously".
I never came down into this part of town, Alec said, looking nervously around at the weathered building overhanging the street and the shadowed alleys between.
Beyond Kari and Astasia, the fuses gleamed brighter in the shadows, the waiting soldiers hovering nervously, waiting for the command to fire.
Cat looked nervously about him as Bluey, strapped into the left seat for the first time, did his run-up of the airplane.
His face was worried, mouth working nervously as he peered out over the bow, toward the maelstrom of spray where the whales were broaching, visible now from the deck.
He stood there in the moonlight, shifting nervously from one foot to the other, fiddling with the bugle, shaking it angrily, testing it against his lips.
Bernard Barker shifts nervously as in right-angular time a future president metamorphoses the plumbers into the cesspool cleaners: but now, inside the Watergate, the Illuminati bug is unnoticed by those planting the CREEP bug, although both were subsequently found by the technicians installing the BUGGER bug.
We could see his big floppy hat and blond hair and we could see him nervously smoking a ciggy in the back of the car.
He would have felt and looked more at home there than any of the periwigged Persons of Quality who darted across its stone floor, nervously, like stoats trying to make it across a darkling sandbar before owls could stoop on them.
Querida watched Derk nervously fumbling for sugar and wondered what all the dogs were barking about in the distance.
Young Doty, the adjutant, fiddled nervously with his pen and tried to go on signing papers, but failed.
They were an odd couple, the two of them, and looked shabby, the half-caste, dowdily dressed woman and her tiny daughter, standing nervously in the grand hall with its chandeliers and sweeping staircase and somber portraits of all the Jackson family.
There followed a sound like leaves scuttering across pavement, and then Jacky could see, through the uncovered peek-hole, a waxing red glow, and she could hear Dungy nervously whistling the idiotic song Horrabin always made him sing.
Engineer Gilmore from the Equinox flitted her gaze nervously between Janeway and her own captain.
Shelby played with the edge of the eyelet spread, nervously sticking her finger through one of the holes and pulling it back out again.
The smaller bounty hunter, Zuckuss, glanced nervously from Boba Fett over to Bossk, then back again.