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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shuddering +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • 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.

    Desert Conquest or, Precious Waters 1916

  • "Ugh -- the filthy beasts," Joan gulped shudderingly.

    Chapter 22 2010

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • People surviving or dying in ways at once shudderingly alien and hauntingly familiar, if only on celluloid.

    Into the Story DAVID MARANISS 2010

  • People surviving or dying in ways at once shudderingly alien and hauntingly familiar, if only on celluloid.

    Into the Story DAVID MARANISS 2010

  • People surviving or dying in ways at once shudderingly alien and hauntingly familiar, if only on celluloid.

    Into the Story DAVID MARANISS 2010

  • 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.

    Just who is interested in politicians' sex lives? 2010

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