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Unsteady

adjective

Subject to change or variation. "His hand was unsteady as he poured the wine" , "An unsteady voice"

Not firmly or solidly positioned. Synonym: unfirm. "An unfirm stance"

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"Unsteady" Quotes from Famous Books

... first to descend from the carriage; he held the door open for the young man. He saw him place his foot on the mossy ground with a trembling of the whole body, and walk round the carriage with an unsteady and almost tottering step. It seemed as if the poor prisoner was unaccustomed to walk on God's earth. It was the 15th of August, about eleven o'clock at night; thick clouds, portending a tempest, overspread the heavens, and ...

— The Man in the Iron Mask • Alexandre Dumas, Pere

... You are shockingly unsteady on your feet, and feel very dazed and feeble; but you are also hungrier than ever now, with the keen morning air whetting your appetite, and the immediate business ahead of you is to find food. So you turn to the bank at your side and begin to grub; and as you grub you wander on, eating the ...

— Bear Brownie - The Life of a Bear • H. P. Robinson

... the stern necessities of business drove forth, lingering and shivering, from their comfortable inns on to the deck, already wet and unsteady, Livingstone was an object of great interest and many theories. His impatience to be gone was so marked that the conscientious official looked more than once suspiciously ...

— Guy Livingstone; - or, 'Thorough' • George A. Lawrence

... child begins to train himself to make use of his limbs, first by swinging his arms and legs, second by creeping, third by walking. Note a child feeding itself, how unsteady he is in getting his food to his mouth; sometimes his spoon misses his mouth and the food is spilled, for which he usually receives a slap, although he has displayed all his energy in getting his food in his mouth. Next we find him a trained athlete and skilled ...

— ABC's of Science • Charles Oliver

... the men laughed again, but the man I had spoken to got up and buttoned his coat. He had to lean against the fence, he was so unsteady. ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 93, July, 1865 • Various

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