shaky
/ˈʃeɪki/ adjective B2- Shaking or trembling. · a shaky spot in a marsh· a shaky hand
- Nervous, anxious. · He’s a nice guy but when he talks to me, he acts shaky.
- Full of shakes or cracks; cracked. · shaky timber· For quotations using this term, see Citations:shaky.
- Easily shaken; tottering; unsound. · a shaky constitution· shaky business credit
- Wavering; undecided.
Comparative shakier · Superlative shakiest
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And she said if the foundation was shaky we could never build anything really worth while on it.
She appeared to be dazzled by the sudden blaze of light, and after dropping a curtsey, she stood blinking at us with her bleared eyes and fumbling in her pocket with nervous, shaky fingers.
So shaky was he that he could hardly pick up his change, and the clerk had helped him with it.
The moon was sinking behind the hills and the lines of trembling monkeys huddled together on the walls and battlements looked like ragged shaky fringes of things.
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