• Nervily

    Origin

    nervy + -ly

    Full definition of nervily

    Adverb

    nervily

    1. In a nervy way.
      • 2008, March 13, Janet Maslin, Telling His Own Tale of Passions and Piety, To put it more nervily, and of course Ms. Rice does: “Well, now I knew just what it meant to be the man who knew he was God.”
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