falteringly

falter | American Dictionary

falter
verb[ I ]
us/ˈfɔl·tər/
to lose strength or purpose and pause or stop:
His career began to falter.
To falter is also to move or speak without confidence or with pauses.

faltering

adjectiveus/ˈfɔl·tər·ɪŋ/
faltering speech

Examples of falter

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Both large and small children faltered, but at this early stage more boys than girls started from below average weights.
The rubato and quieter dynamic of the music that follows signifies a sadness recalled, respect and honour, and perhaps, faltering confidence.
There is an element of rec iproc ity in hope, f or when hope falters, it is renewed through the hope of another.
Table 3 outlines several areas in which decentralisation has faltered.
The hypothesis that the primary visual cortex serves as a plasma screen for our subjective experience of visual images falters when faced with neuropsychological evidence.
If the book falters, it is in its introductory pages which offer a dense and somewhat laboured crash-course in ' ' context and immigrant identity.
However, when adult attachment insecurity was combined with marital attachment security, family functioning faltered.
Failures of the voice-key to register the participant's response or triggering due to faltering of the participant's voice or ambient sounds were noted.
Obviously, faltering occurring in early infancy, and in those of well below average weight, is likely to indicate the approach of clinical malnutrition.
However, in 1973 the program faltered in its growth because of a dropoff in contraceptive pill acceptors.
The promise of independence took a real hit when the economy faltered in 1990.
Instead of holding the past in some kind of uninterrupted, uncontaminated state, it undoes the ideal by faltering under the influence of the present.
From the beginning the alliance faltered.
However, although the hydrocarbon sector upgraded its performance and added revenues, the rest of the productive sector - most of it state-owned - continued to decline, and the privatization program faltered.
With quiet confidence and reassuring ease: the book falters neither substantively nor stylistically, but carves a steady path through political, economic, social, cultural and ecological history.
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