shaky

• (s) inclined to shake as from weakness or defect
  • a rickety table
  • a wobbly chair with shaky legs
  • the ladder felt a little wobbly
  • the bridge still stands though one of the arches is wonky
  rickety, wobbly, wonky,
• (s) vibrating slightly and irregularly; as e.g. with fear or cold or like the leaves of an aspen in a breeze
  • a quaking bog
  • the quaking child asked for more
  • quivering leaves of a poplar tree
  • with shaking knees
  • seemed shaky on her feet
  • sparkling light from the shivering crystals of the chandelier
  • trembling hands
  shivering, trembling,
• (s) not secure; beset with difficulties
  • a shaky marriage
  precarious,

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