nervously
English
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Adverb
[edit]nervously (comparative more nervously, superlative most nervously)
- In a nervous manner; feeling or displaying nervousness.
- He paced nervously as he waited for the important phone call.
- 1919, Christopher Morley, “Again the Narrative is Retarded”, in The Haunted Bookshop, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, →OCLC, page 171:
- Then he could see the modest bookseller, somewhat clammy in his extremities and lost within his academic robe and hood, nervously fidgeting his mortar-board, haled forward by ushers, and tottering rubescent before the chancellor, provost, president (or whoever it might be) who hands out the diploma.
- 1987, Derek Dick, “Warm Wet Circles”, in Clutching at Straws, performed by Marillion:
- She nervously undressed in the dancing beams of the Fidra lighthouse, giving it all away before it's too late
Translations
[edit]in a nervous manner
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