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Uncertainly   /ənsˈərtənli/   Listen
Uncertainly

adverb
1.
In an unsteady manner.  Synonyms: falteringly, unsteadily.  "The wounded soldier was swinging unsteadily on his legs"
2.
Showing lack of certainty.





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"Uncertainly" Quotes from Famous Books



... a while uncertainly. Then he laid off his mackinaw, walked softly to the bedroom door, looked in. After a minute of silent watching he drew back. The girl had seated herself in a chair. MacRae sat down ...
— Poor Man's Rock • Bertrand W. Sinclair
... of her toilet; yet none the less Mary Connynge, Eve-like, bewitching, endowed with all the ancient wiles of womankind. Will Law gazed, since this was his fate. Unconsciously the sorcery of the sight enfolded the youth as he stood there uncertainly. He saw the round throat, the heavy masses of the dark hair, the full round form. He noted, though he could not define; felt, though he could not classify. He was young. Utterly helpless might have been even ...
— The Mississippi Bubble • Emerson Hough
... hardly seemed to know what to do next. He took off his dripping coat, threw it in a heap in one corner and turned back uncertainly to the girls. ...
— Billie Bradley on Lighthouse Island - The Mystery of the Wreck • Janet D. Wheeler
... order to Freya, who went out, returning immediately with a tall, thin bottle. It was mellow Rhine wine, the gift of a merchant of Naples, that the doctor was saving for an extraordinary occasion. She filled four glasses, and, raising hers, looked around her uncertainly. ...
— Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) - A Novel • Vicente Blasco Ibanez
... of small stature, slim, a coughing old man with a clean-shaven face, comes out from behind the church. Because of his irresoluteness, or because of the weakness of his eyes, he steps uncertainly, touching the ground cautiously and with a ...
— The Crushed Flower and Other Stories • Leonid Andreyev


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