The Collaborative International Dictionary
Uncertainly \Un*cer"tain*ly\, adv. In an uncertain manner.
Wiktionary
adv. In an uncertain manner.
WordNet
adv. in an unsteady manner; "he walked unsteadily toward the exit"; "The wounded soldier was swinging unsteadily on his legs" [syn: unsteadily, falteringly] [ant: steadily]
showing lack of certainty; "he paused uncertainly"
Usage examples of "uncertainly".
Shannon kept glancing uncertainly from Brewster to the chamberpot and back again, her body tense, poised as if she were ready to either strike or flee.
We proceeded uncertainly for perhaps another hundred yards, when this time it was Porta who stopped.
He looked surprised, and smiled a little uncertainly as he put the quesadilla down.
It flew on starward, wavering uncertainly as it searched the space ahead.
Isaac caught blurred sight of a man stumbling uncertainly towards them on the broken ground.
The surface dwellers swam uncertainly, staying within a group near the coral-tiled floor.
For a moment they swayed uncertainly, and then, with mingled and most unscholarly shrieks, they pitched headlong from the tree, locked in frenzied embrace.
Petrie and Adelaide could see small fires burning all over Miami in the tropical darkness, and a few buildings uncertainly lit by emergency generators.
I pick up the Evian bottle, take a long, deep swallow and carry it with me as I move uncertainly through the house, past spaces where someone has turned off various lights while I was sleeping.
I lock my legs around his again and roll us both over faceup just in timethe pair of ogres, who were winding up for free shots at my back, lower their morningstars uncertainly.
It pulled its rear up in a great arch, vised its prolegs into the hard earth, took the weight of its forebody, and with a flail lifted it, straightening the tube of bodiness, the humanish torso high at the end of outstretched grub physiognomy that batted uncertainly at the air, then onto the spongy caterpillar forelegs.
Fire coughed uncertainly from the mouths of the flamethrowers, spattering the hall along the floors, walls, and ceiling, where it clung in globs of what had to be a mix of gasoline or some other accelerant, and petroleum jellyhomemade napalm.
Edgar got down off his bunk, and stood uncertainly beside Shark - a reluctant lawbreaker who found himself increasingly committed to evading justice.
She tumbled out, looking uncertainly at Michaelis, then ran towards me.
Lowering their staves, the purple-plumes strayed uncertainly to a stop.