jumpily
- a word derived from jumpy.
Example Sentences
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This is a world that may partly exist in the past, but it’s jumpily noisy, and still alive.
From New York Times ● Dec. 16, 2021
Everyone starts moving quickly, jumpily, trying to suppress the sinking feeling that this is not like the other asthma flares we see, that this person is too sick for us to save.
From New York Times ● Dec. 16, 2019
But the question becomes whether jumpily edited copies of paintings are an improvement over jumpy viewers.
From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2010
Talking jumpily and a little like a phonograph record running too fast, he sprays his monologues with far-out terms such as chick, drag, gasser, cool it, bug, dig, weirdo and all that jazz.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then it was away, moving jumpily with its half-wrecked side tubes, but nevertheless escaping.
From The Devil's Asteroid by Wellman, Manly Wade
