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Meanings of nervily in English

In a brash cheeky manner.

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Examples for "cheekily"
Examples for "cheekily"
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One said cheekily, ''Tis the only ship Jake 'ere'll ever command, sir!'
For my Country’s Freedom
2
The Canadian star cheekily posed a question on her Twitter page.
News.com.au
3
He then cheekily bails out and says, Stay tuned, you gotta keep following.
News.com.au
4
Whitehead's next single release was cheekily titled I Don't Do Surprises.
News.com.au
5
Latsis stuck his head out of the tank and grinned cheekily.
Red inferno: 1945
1
The feminist Craft is brashly political and spiritual at once.
Drawing Down the Moon
2
Google has done this by brashly adopting a new and radical open-source technology called OpenFlow.
Wired
3
And the arrives were certainly bouncing in rather brashly.
The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me
4
With my student credit card, I brashly borrowed money.
Welcome to the N.H.K.
5
Now it seems to be brashly reinventing mobile computing.
Wired
Usage of nervily in English
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I've met him a couple of times and he's always been... nervily defensive.
Long time coming: a novel
2
He waited nervily for a response, crouched down with his hands between his thighs like a catcher between pitches.
IT
3
Everyone here is nervily aware of the success immersive groups have had in making theatre in temporary or site-specific spaces.
The Guardian
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Chauvelin felt as if he were choking; his slender fingers worked nervily around his cravat; beads of perspiration trickled unheeded down his pallid forehead.
The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel
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Carberry c Kieswetter b Phillips 0 After nervily failing to get the ball off the wicket from his first delivery, Michael Carberry swings wild.
The Guardian
6
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.
The Irish Times
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"He's signalling us," said Hen, waving back; and she nervily added: "Stop, William!"
V. V.'s Eyes
Nervily through the time