Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Wavering; unsteady; shaky; faltering.
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- adjective Tending to
waver ;uncertain orhesitant .
Etymologies
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Examples
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What’s more, I think as information outlets have increased and as media criticism has turned into a national pastime, serious readers have come to realize that reporters such as Dan and Adam — solid, no-BS, non-partisan shoe-leather guys who ALSO have amazing contacts — are indispensable, especially if you enjoy the kind of wavery, total-BS, very partisan, barfly stylings of folks like me.
Q&A with Ana Marie Cox: Asking the audience to pay for journalism » Nieman Journalism Lab 2008
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:) So I am still feeling kind of wavery over it, but we are going to try to conceive as planned.
sheepdip Diary Entry sheepdip 2003
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He looks weak and wavery to his enemies, but, even more important, he looks the same way to his own troops.
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The wine goblet perched on the top of the desk explains it partly, but her wavery voice explains a little bit more.
Angry Young Man Chris Lynch 2011
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He looks weak and wavery to his enemies, but, even more important, he looks the same way to his own troops.
Archive 2010-01-01 2010
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Willy scrambled for the .45 somewhere under his feet, jumped up with it, hit his head, yelled Freeze in a wavery voice, saw it was an American soldier, put the gun down, saw he was all in black, laid the gun on him again.
Babies Terence Cannon 2011
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I should have known something was wrong as I have taken care of hundreds of dying people as a nurse and their voice gets weak and sounds wavery.
Heroes or Villains? 2010
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I wanted to leave, but stayed for the end, and the inevitable song, wavery without accompaniment, in praise of – you guessed – peace.
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The wine goblet perched on the top of the desk explains it partly, but her wavery voice explains a little bit more.
Angry Young Man Chris Lynch 2011
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The wine goblet perched on the top of the desk explains it partly, but her wavery voice explains a little bit more.
Angry Young Man Chris Lynch 2011
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