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shaky
[ shey-kee ]
adjective
- tending to shake or tremble.
- trembling; tremulous.
- liable to break down or give way; insecure; not to be depended upon:
a shaky bridge.
- wavering, as in allegiance:
His loyalty, always shaky, was now nonexistent.
shaky
/ ˈʃeɪkɪ /
adjective
- tending to shake or tremble
- liable to prove defective; unreliable
- uncertain or questionable
your arguments are very shaky
Derived Forms
- ˈshakiness, noun
- ˈshakily, adverb
Other Words From
- shaki·ly adverb
- shaki·ness noun
Example Sentences
Those are also the building blocks of a society, a shaky foundation that forces the idealistic Tóth to flee one rotten country for another.
Her departure blindsided the government, leaving the fate of the scheduled economic update in the air for hours and bringing Trudeau and his shaky minority Liberals to the brink.
I remember feeling a bit shaky in the dialect at first, and then Sean was like, “OK, let’s take it down three notches.”
But no matter how Yoon chooses to play it, his botched martial law declaration may already be shaping up to be the last straw that breaks his shaky presidency.
But England's defence stepped up to the task and put aside recent criticism after looking shaky this year.
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