titter
verb (used without object)
to laugh in a restrained, self-conscious, or affected way, as from nervousness or in ill-suppressed amusement.
titteringly
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a word derived from
titter.
Example Sentences
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Instead of any other comment, during his wife's readings he merely rubbed his hands pleasantly, and murmured as long as he was not asleep, titteringly, "This confusion, this confusion."
From Felix Lanzberg's Expiation by Ossip Schubin
