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  • adjective superlative form of unsteady: most unsteady.

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Examples

  • There seemed neither sympathy nor understanding on that unsteadiest of ships.

    Told in the East Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1920

  • There seemed neither sympathy nor understanding on that unsteadiest of ships.

    Told in the East Talbot Mundy 1909

  • Towards the end he would bring home his boon companions -- I will say this for poor dear George, that his footsteps, at their unsteadiest, ever tended homeward; he never affected low haunts -- and it fell to me as the eldest daughter of the house to keep his hospitality within bounds -- "

    Lady Good-for-Nothing Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

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