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Shaky   /ʃˈeɪki/   Listen
adjective
Shaky  adj.  (compar. shakier; superl. shakiest)  
1.
Shaking or trembling; as, a shaky spot in a marsh; a shaky hand.
2.
Full of shakes or cracks; cracked; as, shaky timber.
3.
Easily shaken; tottering; unsound; as, a shaky constitution; shaky business credit. (Colloq.)





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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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