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Definition of Shakier
1. shaky [adj] - See also: shaky
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shakier
Literary usage of Shakier
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Family Letters of Christina Georgina Rossetti: With Some Supplementary by Christina Georgina Rossetti, William Michael Rossetti (1908)
"... grows shakier and shakier"— the point was to find a rhyme for " shakier."
Scotus and Mrs. Scott had been to see him, and I think he was expecting that ..."
2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1890)
"... for a-noor (an hour) an mare ' (more). driving pigs off. Hoppen [aop-n], pp
of to hop. Hooy [uoy], a word used in Hopper -shakier [aop-u-shaak- ur'] ..."
3. The Journal of Heredity by American Genetic Association (1914)
"The second postulate of the pure line theory is a much shakier one, but I must
hasten to qualify the form in which it has been stated before it is disowned ..."
4. A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from by Samuel Johnson, Henry John Todd, Alexander Chalmers (1824)
"To enclose within walls ; to confine ; to shut up ; to imprison. shakier arc.
IMMU'SICAL. a. [in and musical.] Inharmonious; wanting proportion of sound. ..."
5. The Bookman (1899)
"... he treats with contempt—though he paints no ideal portrait of Lope-—and,
indeed, the evidence seems shakier each time it is dispassionately examined. ..."
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