unsteady

The Hearts manager could see - as anybody who was watching could see - Magnusson clearly unsteady on his feet and wobbling.

From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026

The talks also come at an unsteady time for the world's second-largest economy, which has struggled to address persistently sluggish domestic spending and a protracted crisis in the crucial property sector.

From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2026

Any influence Laura Overdeck gains at Two Sigma could upset the delicate and unsteady power arrangement between the firm’s founders.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

As would be feeling unsteady on your feet or being overly concerned with falling.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

The dust, over the years, had eroded him; it had left his features gray, his thoughts gray; it had shrunk him and made his legs spindly and his gait unsteady.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick

From oil prices to regional alliances, the six-month-old conflict has defied expectations and unsteadied the global balance of power.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026

The challenge will be not getting unsteadied by meticulously curated opposing pitching plans.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2024

I breathed out, took my foot off the gas, and the car quivered, unsteadied.

From The Verge ● Feb. 9, 2016

At the same time, he knows what it’s like to be unsteadied by professional disappointment – and, worse, to be toppled, outright, by personal tragedy.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 18, 2015

Soon he spoke; and his words at first seemed to her very far afield, though there was that in his unsteadied voice which reassured her beyond speech.

From Captivating Mary Carstairs by Raymond Moreau Crosby

Volckmer has said the subheading was kept off the cover “as a surprise” – making it the first of many unsteadying gear shifts in a monologue that sets out to unsettle.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 3, 2020

It is deeply unsteadying to ponder the possibility that Riefenstahl might have been both a considerable artist and a considerable Nazi.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 19, 2015

Only, in bidding her good-night, he held her hand a moment longer than usual, smiling straight into her eyes; and the strong enfolding pressure, far from unsteadying her, seemed rather to revive her flagging fortitude.

From Captain Desmond, V.C. by Maud Diver

A rush of those very sensations at which she had so often gently mocked swept through her consciousness, unsteadying and bewildering her.

From The Wicked Marquis by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

They took their seats, and at last he freed himself from the unsteadying embarrassment which had shaken him at the first sight of her under the brilliant lights of the ballroom.

From Queed by Raymond Moreau Crosby