2. Adverb. unevenly ¹
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Definition of Jumpily
1. jumpy [adv] - See also: jumpy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jumpily
Literary usage of Jumpily
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Marriage by Herbert George Wells (1912)
"The children were marvellously silent and jumpily well-behaved, and Mr. Pope, in
a very unusual state of subdued amiability, sat at the end of the table ..."
2. Log-letters from "The Challenger" by George Campbell (1877)
"This crust cracks beneath one, and now and then we broke through, ankle deep,
which made us extremely active and jumpily inclined, not lessened as pieces of ..."
3. Across the Great Saint Bernard: The Modes of Nature and the Manners of Man by Alfred Richard Sennett (1904)
"At this moment it seems they are tolerably happy, especially the girls, who are
invisible because upstairs, for all are singing. The boys, too, are jumpily ..."
4. Across the Great Saint Bernard: The Modes of Nature and the Manners of Man by Alfred Richard Sennett (1904)
"The boys, too, are jumpily singing " responses." Yet how quickly does the little
black cloud of trouble appear in the clear sky of happiness—as quickly in ..."
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