rockily

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   In an uneven way

   In an uneven way; in a rocking manner.

   • https://web.archive.org/web/20060508091041/http://www.michaelmcfadyenscuba.info/articles/earprob.htm We arrive there five minutes later and I sit up very rockily. I have to get off this boat, I am getting sick.
   • https://web.archive.org/web/20050217043222/http://www.talkcinema.com/reviews/cannes9907.html French actress Sophie Marceau entered rockily on heels
   • The hand-held camera rockily zooms in on one of the surgeons who is holding a circular surgical saw covered in dried blood.
2. 2

   In a manner suggestive of a rock or rocks.

   • Ten minutes before serving whisk up the whites of eggs with a little sugar and pile rockily on top.
   • http://www.dartmouth.edu/~doc/mountainbiking/roundsmartsmountain/ After the trail reaches the height of land, it descends sometimes steeply and often rockily.
   • Roads, railway, river, streams, a world in accurate and lively detail, with mountains sticking up abruptly and rockily, as the old painters painted it.
3. 3

   Unsteadily

   Unsteadily; inconsistently or resulting in volatility.

   • Having murdered her lecherous grandfather as he attempts an anal assault, Ludmila finds herself catapulted into a rockily conceived exercise in damage-control
   • At 13 Drew was using cocaine, and by the time she was 16 the rockily-rehabbed actress was co-authoring an autobiography about it all.
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   1. 4

      In a manner suggestive of rock music.

      • https://web.archive.org/web/20060429210002/http://www.atticlights.co.uk/about.html Top of the three here is “Ton Of Love”, a back beaten Tom Petty-ish album tracker with Beach Boy backing vox, slick and, get this, rockily abrasive.

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