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Vinony

nervously

adverb

  1. with some fear
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Wiktionary

adv

Etymology: Etymology tree English nervous Middle English -ly English -ly English nervously From nervous + -ly.

  1. In a nervous manner; feeling or displaying nervousness.

    “He paced nervously as he waited for the important phone call.”

    “Then he could see the modest bookseller, somewhat clammy in his extremities and lost within his academic robe and hood, nervously fidgeting his mortar-board, haled forward by ushers, and tottering rubescent before the chancellor, provost, president (or whoever it might be) who hands out the diploma.”