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unsteady

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Some months later they saw a hotel manager openly complain to a vendor about the unsteady supply of produce the hotel was getting.

Each chair is made with a sturdy steel frame that doesn’t wobble or feel unsteady, and the canvas seat offers plenty of wiggle room.

Enter Adam Young, a geomorphologist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, who has just compiled perhaps the most detailed dataset on an unsteady cliff faces to date, as our MacKenzie Elmer covers in a new story.

At the extremes, that ability can push people toward crafting more and more elaborate alternate realities, rickety structures that expand into elegant patterns but that stand on unsteady bases of support.

Many of their students are disproportionately burdened by loan debt, and come from families with unsteady financial fortunes.

He discovered his friend—the worse for wear and unsteady on her feet—in the second-floor living room.

You stand on an unsteady pontoon bridge spanning the Tigris River in a township called Adh Dhouloueya.

I was a newspaperman, just returned from the Middle East—a bit unsteady, still, in America.

Besides worrying about how the models would walk on the unsteady ground, audience members knew something magical would happen.

Filigrees of rhetorical precision atop unsteady pillars of conceptual bluff.

The Princess still kept her eyes fixed on Louis, while, in a suppressed and unsteady voice, she answered her governess.

He obeyed without remark, though with an unsteady voice, as he uttered communications he knew were so hostile to her expectation.

Could he be conscious of all this, and not excuse the unsteady youth—accuse himself?

Have you noticed that to write with a steel pen is like walking on unsteady stones with sabots?

With weak unsteady steps he paced his room, and looked at the old Swiss chamois-gun above the door.

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On this page you'll find 93 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to unsteady, such as: erratic, groggy, precarious, rickety, rocky, and unstable.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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