Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a quivering manner; with quivering.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb With quivering motion.
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- adverb While
quivering , or as if quivering
Etymologies
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Examples
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Ms. Arianda is quite a bit more hard-edged than Holliday—her Noo Yawk accent could shatter bulletproof glass at a thousand yards—but also quiveringly vulnerable and full of an unselfconscious delight in her own self-evident appeal.
The Blacker Shade of Blue Terry Teachout 2011
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Here in visceral HD was an example of TV sport's ability both to bring people together – forging such cross-cultural treasures as the Sri Lankan Russell Arnold picking up the phrase "he's a goner!" from our own dear David Lloyd – and also to fuel the most quiveringly overwrought nationalistic display.
India's future is so bright they gotta wear shades | Barney Ronay 2011
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He projected himself too quiveringly into his environment.
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They may not bein the forms of castles and cathedrals, they may not fluoresce, but they will, I promise, be quiveringly delicious.
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He dips his head and gives me the look that says, how can you resist someone as quiveringly self-aware, as attuned to the mechanisms of his own irresistibility, as I, Russell Brand, am?
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Glancing down at herself, at the full pale slopes of her breasts from which her nipples thrust, now quiveringly erect, feeling the heated tightening in the pit of her stomach that was becoming almost familiar to her now, she knew that there was no mistaking the desire he had roused her to, and that he recognized it as well as she did.
Shameless KAREN ROBARDS 2010
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Glancing down at herself, at the full pale slopes of her breasts from which her nipples thrust, now quiveringly erect, feeling the heated tightening in the pit of her stomach that was becoming almost familiar to her now, she knew that there was no mistaking the desire he had roused her to, and that he recognized it as well as she did.
Shameless KAREN ROBARDS 2010
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He was eighty-nine and wheelchairbound; she was twenty-six and quiveringly mobile.
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He was eighty-nine and wheelchairbound; she was twenty-six and quiveringly mobile.
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It was the most quiveringly sensual thing she'd ever done.
Forbidden Enchantment Bruhns, Nina 2007
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