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Definition of Shakiest
1. shaky [adj] - See also: shaky
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shakiest
Literary usage of Shakiest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1874)
"Well, I may be ; there's few of us quite knows ourselves: And the shakiest don't
like to take to their shelves. How 's an arch to stand up when its bearings ..."
2. The History of Henry Fielding by Wilbur Lucius Cross (1918)
"The tales of Fielding's dissolute youth which have crept into literature and
grown with the fiction they have fed on, have but the shakiest foundation. ..."
3. Menander, the Principal Fragments by Menander (1921)
"... continue his soliloquy somewhat as follows : "Reflecting on this, I have now
decided that to chatter and play the busybody is the shakiest thing of all. ..."
4. Menander, the Principal Fragments by Menander (1921)
"... I have now decided that to chatter and play the busybody is the shakiest thing
of all. My master keeps on disliking me, and as for that accursed old man ..."
5. Menander, the Principal Fragments by Menander (1921)
"... continue his soliloquy somewhat as follows: "Reflecting on this, I have now
decided that to chatter and play the busybody is the shakiest thing of all. ..."
6. Literature Circles: Voice and Choice in Book Clubs and Reading Groups by Harvey Daniels (2002)
"She usually starts by placing herself with whichever group looks shakiest, and
then gradually works her way out to the stronger ones. ..."
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