[
UK
/nˈɜːvəsli/
]
[ US /ˈnɝvəsɫi/ ]
[ US /ˈnɝvəsɫi/ ]
ADVERB
-
in an anxiously nervous manner
we watched the stock market nervously -
with nervous excitement
our bodies jumped nervously away at the slightest touch
How To Use nervously In A Sentence
- In my eight months away she'd become careworn, picking nervously at her fingers as she spoke, palpably lacking the confidence she once had.
- Refreshed and regowned, again in dark colors unrelieved by any bright embroidery, Aene paced nervously along a subtly lit path towards the Castrea residence.
- She hadn't seen Kenta much, but when she had in the last week he had been smiling nervously and in a strained manner.
- My ears were met with the noise of Bam nervously jangling his car keys.
- She was fidgeting nervously with her pen.
- Her long, slender fingers toyed nervously with the two rings she had on her right hand.
- I looked at him dourly and gnawed on my nail nervously.
- Her eyes moved about in worry and she began to chew her bottom lip nervously.
- Mary Torres, of Ratcliffe Street, York, nervously watched the game with her Argentine husband Pablo and four-year-old son Nico, who worships the South American side.
- For he really did believe capitalism controls the proles not by physical oppression but by bread and circuses, by cultural debasement - or ‘dumbing down’ as we now nervously say.