nervily

English

Etymology

nervy +‎ -ly

Adverb

nervily (comparative more nervily, superlative most nervily)

  1. In a nervy way.
    • 2008 March 13, Janet Maslin, “Telling His Own Tale of Passions and Piety”, in New York Times‎:
      To put it more nervily, and of course Ms. Rice does: “Well, now I knew just what it meant to be the man who knew he was God.”
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