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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



... the stone post this way. You are actually trembling. Remember, it's only a young girl you are to face on this occasion, and a deucedly pretty one, at that. The time that you will be more apt to be shaky is when you face her father; but I guess ...
— Mischievous Maid Faynie • Laura Jean Libbey

... mind. Facing me were from four to five thousand soldiers, well equipped, well disciplined, backed up by a strong artillery; just behind me my men, 500 at the outside, with some patched-up guns, almost too shaky ...
— My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War • Ben Viljoen

... might well study this speech of Buzfuz as a guide to the conducting of a case, and above all of rather a "shaky" one. Not less excellent is his smooth and plausible account of Mrs. Bardell's setting up in lodging letting. He really makes it "interesting." One thinks of some fluttering, helpless young widow, setting out in the ...
— Bardell v. Pickwick • Percy Fitzgerald

... pale and shaky, but I come of stiffish stock, and I wouldn't have backed down then, it seemed to me, if they had been going to boil me alive. I suppose it sounds foolish, and if I had had plenty of time I have no doubt my common-sense would have made me crawl. ...
— Master Tales of Mystery, Volume 3 • Collected and Arranged by Francis J. Reynolds

... away from the window and smiled his old Buddha smile. With clumsy creaking precautions they mounted the stair. The moment for the climax came; there was a rush all together, a breaking down of the shaky door. The crew burst into the room—an empty room—and stared puzzled and stupefied at the walls and at ...
— Jewel Weed • Alice Ames Winter


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