rockily
Collocations
3VERB + ROCKILY
entered, hand-held, sit
ROCKILY + NOUN
heels
PREP.
in, on, up
Definitions
adv
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
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.
Unsteadily; inconsistently or resulting in volatility.
https://web.archive.org/web/20051221172204/http://www.trumanlibrary.org/hoover/mccoy1.htm They would gain much in common only slowly, and I should add rockily, for the early stages of their acquaintance was based substantially on mutual self-interest.
Having murdered her lecherous grandfather as he attempts an anal assault, Ludmila finds herself catapulted into a rockily conceived exercise in damage-control
In a manner suggestive of rock music.
https://web.archive.org/web/20060504130636/http://www.albemarle-london.com/notredame.html The music of Richard Cocciante, the book and lyrics of Luc Plamondon, with the lyrics translated by Will Jennings, are consistently and rockily entertaining
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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3https://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 get
Wiktionaryhttps://web.archive.org/web/20050217043222/http://www.talkcinema.com/reviews/cannes9907.html French actress Sophie Marceau entered rockily on heels
WiktionaryThe hand-held camera rockily zooms in on one of the surgeons who is holding a circular surgical saw covered in dried blood.
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