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词汇 uncertainly
释义 uncertainly
adverb
uk /ʌnˈsɜː.tən.li/ us /ʌnˈsɝː.tən.li/
in a way that shows that you do not know what to do or believe, or are not able to decide about something:
She laughed a little uncertainly.
He got off the bus and stood uncertainly on the street.
See
uncertain
"Have you got the time?" he asked her uncertainly.
The audience applauded uncertainly, confused about whether the show was finished.
He moves uncertainly, as if he's always a little off-balance.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Uncertainty
amorphous
be neither fish nor fowlidiom
blurringly
blurry
circumstantial
indeterminacy
indeterminate
indeterminately
insecurely
insecurity
murky
shakily
shakiness
shallowly
slippery
spec
wavery
wifty
wishy-washy
you never knowidiom

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Doubt & ambivalence

uncertainly | American Dictionary


uncertainly
adverb[ not gradable ]
us/ʌnˈsɜr·tən·li/
not confidently or surely:
She looked at John uncertainly.

Examples of uncertainly


uncertainly
Underlying these practical concerns, however, there is often a deeper uncertainly about what the approaches actually mean in terms of methodology.
The other main area of uncertainly surrounded the valuation of production costs.
Considerable uncertainly surrounds how polyps progress, and the effectiveness of the various screening options depends critically upon that process.
In other cases, insinuated meanings lurked uncertainly in the shadows of open ' ' ones.
Thus, faced with uncertainly in both slow and fast subsystems, better controllers that take proper account of this uncertainty are needed, as developed in this paper.
Two of these missions, dated rather uncertainly at 1100 and 1296, were dispatched with the intent of restoring the temple, and both had succeeded in significantly altering the original design.
Are we again going to stand uncertainly between the two parties, trying no doubt to get the best bargain?
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Uncertainly lies at the heart of the lack of confidence in the dairying areas.
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We cannot resort to subterfuges and exceptions which would muddy our intentions and breed confusion and uncertainly for our successors.
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And during all that period he is in a state of uncertainly as to what his ultimate position will be.
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Our living standards over the years have risen as output has risen, but they have risen too slowly and too uncertainly.
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We need an end to the uncertainly, a decision one way or the other.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
Uncertainly means instability, which leads to an inability to plan for the future.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
The pound will find itself wobbling uncertainly between these two large currency zones.
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But this is being threatened by the prolonged uncertainly which risks drying up funding and stalling investments.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
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