jerky
adjective
characterized by jerks or sudden starts; spasmodic.
jerkiest
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superlativeof jerky.superlative
The form of an adjective or adverb indicating the greatest degree of a quality.
Example Sentences
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Being the human embodiment of the casual disrespect that mixed doubles has long received in the tennis community is perhaps the jerkiest thing of all.
From Slate ● Aug. 2, 2021
But it’s only a matter of time before the cash-grabbingest jerk in sports succeeds in pulling off the sports world’s jerkiest cash-grabbing maneuver.
From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2014
He who must justify every act by reflection is condemned to the jerkiest and most hesitant of moral lives.
From A Handbook of Ethical Theory by George Stuart Fullerton
That Eagle Child had ridden up to meet the Grizzly was in itself a fair promise for excitement, but also his Cayuse was one of the jerkiest brutes ever ridden by anybody.
From The Sa'-Zada Tales by William Alexander Fraser
