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Shaky   /ʃˈeɪki/   Listen
Shaky

adjective
(compar. shakier; superl. shakiest)
1.
Inclined to shake as from weakness or defect.  Synonyms: rickety, wobbly, wonky.  "A wobbly chair with shaky legs" , "The ladder felt a little wobbly" , "The bridge still stands though one of the arches is wonky"
2.
Vibrating slightly and irregularly; as e.g. with fear or cold or like the leaves of an aspen in a breeze.  Synonyms: shivering, trembling.  "The quaking child asked for more" , "Quivering leaves of a poplar tree" , "With shaking knees" , "Seemed shaky on her feet" , "Sparkling light from the shivering crystals of the chandelier" , "Trembling hands"
3.
Not secure; beset with difficulties.  Synonym: precarious.






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"Shaky" Quotes from Famous Books



... sir, but I'm very shaky. Legs must be a regular pair of cowards, sir, for they won't ...
— Jack at Sea - All Work and no Play made him a Dull Boy • George Manville Fenn

... that no man has, during the last ten years, worked harder than I have to promote Conservative interests, and for a smaller reward. My exertions at the last election brought on a violent attack of malarial fever, which laid me up for some months, and from which I still suffer. The shaky character of my hand-writing attests the sufferings I have gone through, and the shattered condition of my bodily health at the present moment. I lost my situation as head-clerk in the Export Department of the Ironmongers' Association, and found myself, at the age of forty, compelled ...
— Punch, or The London Charivari, Vol. 101, August 15, 1891 • Various

... agony; and the murderer gazed upon his victim with a horror most intense. Fly! fly!—he dared not stop to think: fly! fly! any whither—as you are—wait for nothing; fly! thou caitiff, for thy life! So he caught up the blood-bought spoils, and was fumbling with shaky fingers at the handle of the garden-door, when the unseen tempter ...
— The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper • Martin Farquhar Tupper

... "Feeling very shaky, I crept to the window, opened it, and leaned out. The night was calm. I heard the fountain splashing in the moonlight and the sea-winds soughing through the palms. Then I closed the window and turned back into the room; and as I stood there a sudden ...
— In Search of the Unknown • Robert W. Chambers

... drink these cocktails," he said, watching the waiter approach. "Flying takes something out of you all the time, you know, Nora, and although when I am up my nerves are like a rock, I sometimes feel a little shaky at ...
— The Box with Broken Seals • E. Phillips Oppenheim


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