uncertainly

adv
/ʌnˈsɜːtən.li/UK/ʌnˈsɜɹ.tən.li/US

Etymology

From Middle English uncerteynliche, uncertanlye. By surface analysis, uncertain + -ly or un- + certainly.

  1. inherited from uncerteynliche

Definitions

  1. In an uncertain manner.

    • "No — don't you get it?" said Rimmer. ¶ "Get what?" said Kryten, uncertainly.
    • I sketch the place of others, pinning them down with objective confidence within an institutional, urban, or rural landscape, yet only failingly, uncertainly, imagine where I really belong[…]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for uncertainly. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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