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quaveringly
adverb
literaryuk /ˈkweɪ.vər.ɪŋ.li/ us /ˈkweɪ.vɚ.ɪŋ.li/
with a voice that is shaking because of strong emotion:
"Are you the owner?" said the man. "I am," I replied quaveringly.
"Lucenzo!" she called quaveringly, "Where are you?"
A woman's voice called quaveringly from the hall: "Madame, can you hear me?"
"I can't believe how horrible it is that we're speaking like this to each other," she told him quaveringly.
His voice was quaveringly emphatic as he told us about the strange events of the previous evening.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
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talk through your hatidiom
tattle
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undertone
wax
witter
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