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- adjective
comparative form ofunsteady : moreunsteady
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Examples
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The longer you hold up the gun the 'unsteadier' you and it gets.
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With a slower, slightly unsteadier movement, she snipped it off with the shears.
SNOW Tracy Lynn 2003
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With a slower, slightly unsteadier movement, she snipped it off with the shears.
SNOW Tracy Lynn 2003
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Marmeladov was much unsteadier on his legs than in his speech and leaned heavily on the young man.
Crime and Punishment 2002
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In what follows I am moving into unsteadier terrain.
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In what follows I am moving into unsteadier terrain.
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"I -- I dare because no one else can, and someone must, " Gubber said, his voice unsteadier than he would have liked.
Roger MacBride Allen, Roger MacBride 1996
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Marmeladov was much unsteadier on his legs than in his speech and leaned heavily on the young man.
Chapter II. Part I 1917
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But in grasp of character, always excepting the one central figure of the piece, we find his hand as yet the unsteadier of the two.
A Study of Shakespeare Algernon Charles Swinburne 1873
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The longer he stood the unsteadier he grew, and the more profusely he wept.
Trumps George William Curtis 1858
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