Meanings of nervily in anglès

I've met him a couple of times and he's always been... nervily defensive.

He waited nervily for a response, crouched down with his hands between his thighs like a catcher between pitches.

Everyone here is nervily aware of the success immersive groups have had in making theatre in temporary or site-specific spaces.

Chauvelin felt as if he were choking; his slender fingers worked nervily around his cravat; beads of perspiration trickled unheeded down his pallid forehead.

Carberry c Kieswetter b Phillips 0 After nervily failing to get the ball off the wicket from his first delivery, Michael Carberry swings wild.

On the shop floors young seasonal workers with a nervily polite first-day-on-the-job air about them were getting a taste of the work day from hell.

"He's signalling us," said Hen, waving back; and she nervily added: "Stop, William!"