quivery


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Synonyms for quivery

marked by or affected with tremors

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She's struggling at the start and she's got a little quivery laugh.
The tone of his music is, however, darker, with a major role being played by the choir and the electronic effects serving to create the illusion of the underwater world; yet besides quivery chords or glissandos it also applies relatively aggressive percussive electronically generated or modified sounds.
Many of the portrait subjects were nervous, if not downright quivery, during their moment on camera, perhaps intimidated by the satiny pink set, the bright lights and the sudden attention of enthusiastic strangers.
Sweat rinsed our brows and ceaseless parades of blubbery diners waddled between the serving tables to their places with quivery hills of food drooling over their plates.
Particularly early on when Cardiff, with their tails up, took a lead which if not quite a FA Cup shock destined to move John Motson into quivery voice mode, came as a pleasant surprise anyway.
Hornsacker sucked in a quivery breath and described the afternoon's events:
"Tanak Airku" (My Homeland) mimics the Dave Clark Five's "Glad All Over," and more than a few others feel like deconstructed versions of the Beatles' "Rain." "Mari-Mari" (Come On, Come On) opens with a quivery sampling of the Rolling Stones' "Satisfaction" riff before veering toward a laid-back, sunset vibe.