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In an uneven way; in a rocking manner.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- https://web.archive.org/web/20060508091041/http://www.michaelmcfadyenscuba.info/articles/earprob.htm We arrive there five minutes later and I sit up very rockily. I have to get off this boat, I am getting sick.
- https://web.archive.org/web/20050217043222/http://www.talkcinema.com/reviews/cannes9907.html French actress Sophie Marceau entered rockily on heels
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In a manner suggestive of a rock or rocks.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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- http://www.dartmouth.edu/~doc/mountainbiking/roundsmartsmountain/ After the trail reaches the height of land, it descends sometimes steeply and often rockily.
- https://web.archive.org/web/20060212182830/http://etcweb1.princeton.edu/CampusWWW/Companion/goheen_robert.html Patient, always humane and trustworthy, he is personally humble at the very time that he is rockily steadfast (an unsympathetic witness might say stubborn), not because he fails to understand and respect the views of others but because he refuses to compromise his own enduring values.
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Unsteadily; inconsistently or resulting in volatility.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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- https://web.archive.org/web/20051221172204/http://www.trumanlibrary.org/hoover/mccoy1.htm They would gain much in common only slowly, and I should add rockily, for the early stages of their acquaintance was based substantially on mutual self-interest.
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In a manner suggestive of rock music.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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- https://web.archive.org/web/20060504130636/http://www.albemarle-london.com/notredame.html The music of Richard Cocciante, the book and lyrics of Luc Plamondon, with the lyrics translated by Will Jennings, are consistently and rockily entertaining
- https://web.archive.org/web/20060429210002/http://www.atticlights.co.uk/about.html Top of the three here is “Ton Of Love”, a back beaten Tom Petty-ish album tracker with Beach Boy backing vox, slick and, get this, rockily abrasive.
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Etymology tree English rocky Middle English -ly English -ly English rockily From rocky + -ly.
