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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



... both and I can't make up my mind which to kiss first—and it's that way about everything! It's all so good I don't know what to begin on." She brought their faces together and achieved a simultaneous kiss with a shaky laugh. "Now, look here! If we stand here another minute we'll all cry. Come and show me the house. I want to see every single thing. All the old things, and all the new ones Mother's been writing about." She seized their hands and pulled them into the parlor. "I've been in ...
— The Squirrel-Cage • Dorothy Canfield

... with my story, you must understand that, though this Portuguese spoke broken English, which I haven't tried to give you, he made himself perfectly plain to all of us, and I can assure you that when he got through talking there was a shaky lot of men ...
— The Rudder Grangers Abroad and Other Stories • Frank R. Stockton

... compiled with one end in view: to arrange in a convenient and inexpensive form the fundamentals of verse—enough for the student who takes up verse as a literary exercise or for the older verse writer who has fallen into a rut or who is a bit shaky on theory. It is even hoped that there may be a word of ...
— Rhymes and Meters - A Practical Manual for Versifiers • Horatio Winslow

... and he told of the wonderful dream he had had about a tree where all kinds of nuts grew side by side on the same branch. "I was so tired of peanuts," he added, "I set out to find the tree—but somehow—got—lost," and then his voice became so shaky he couldn't tell ...
— Hazel Squirrel and Other Stories • Howard B. Famous

... said Aunt Martha, her voice shaky, as she nestled her head close to the girl's. But ...
— The Range Boss • Charles Alden Seltzer


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