Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- With a shudder; tremblingly; tremulously.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a shuddering manner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb With a
shuddering motion.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb with a shudder
Etymologies
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Examples
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He recalled shudderingly brother engineers whose wives dragged about with them, living on the edge of construction camps under canvas in summer, in rough-boarded, tar-papered shacks in the winter; or perhaps in half-furnished cottages in some nearby jerk-water town.
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"Ugh -- the filthy beasts," Joan gulped shudderingly.
Chapter 22 2010
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Examples of the Bush administration's self-proclaimed commitment to a "balanced approach to drug control" are abundant, but I chose this one because of its shudderingly ironic same-breath endorsement of John "Unbalanced Approach" Walters to serve as the nation's Drug Czar.
Scott Morgan: Fixing Our Drug Policy Will Require A Hatchet, Not A Scalpel Scott Morgan 2011
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If Niagara Falls surged horizontally and a rickety bridge arced, shudderingly, over the torrent below, it might feel like the Nile at Karuma.
Lawrence Weschler: The Art of the Shakedown, From the Nile to the Potomac Lawrence Weschler 2011
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If Niagara Falls surged horizontally and a rickety bridge arced, shudderingly, over the torrent below, it might feel like the Nile at Karuma.
Lawrence Weschler: The Art of the Shakedown, From the Nile to the Potomac Lawrence Weschler 2011
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There are tables and oddments of the depressing sort we can all remember shudderingly from the house of a grandparent or great-grandparent, which remind us why later generations decried the Victorian aesthetic.
A Self-Conscious Pursuit of Beauty in Art Paul Levy 2011
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People surviving or dying in ways at once shudderingly alien and hauntingly familiar, if only on celluloid.
Into the Story DAVID MARANISS 2010
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People surviving or dying in ways at once shudderingly alien and hauntingly familiar, if only on celluloid.
Into the Story DAVID MARANISS 2010
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People surviving or dying in ways at once shudderingly alien and hauntingly familiar, if only on celluloid.
Into the Story DAVID MARANISS 2010
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Yet appear "more human" achieves precisely the opposite, as everyone who remembers Gordon Brown's attempts at turning his frown upside down can shudderingly affirm.
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