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jerkily
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adverbial jerkily has 2 senses
- jerkily(r = adv.all) spasmodically - with spasms; "the mouth was slightly open, and jerked violently and spasmodically at one corner"
- jerkily(r = adv.all) Array - with jerking motions; "She rose stiffly, jerkily from the window seat"
THESAURUS
jerkily
at irregular intervals, at random, brokenly, by catches, by fits, by jerks, by snatches, capriciously, desultorily, disconnectedly, discontinuously, eccentrically, erratically, fitfully, flutteringly, haltingly, in snatches, in spots, inconstantly, intermittently, irregularly, lurchingly, nonuniformly, off and on, patchily, quakingly, quaveringly, quiveringly, roughly, saltatorily, shakily, shudderingly, spasmodically, sporadically, spottily, tremblingly, tremulously, uncertainly, unevenly, unmethodically, unpredictably, unrhythmically, unsteadily, unsystematically, variably, waveringly, whimsically, wobblingly
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