What does rockily mean?
Rockily means In an uneven way; in a rocking manner..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adverb
In an uneven way; in a rocking manner..
https://web.archive.org/web/20060508091041/http://www.michaelmcfadyenscuba.info/articles/earprob.htm We arrive there five minutes later and I sit up very rockily. I have to get off this boat, I am getting sick.
https://web.archive.org/web/20050217043222/http://www.talkcinema.com/reviews/cannes9907.html French actress Sophie Marceau entered rockily on heels
The hand-held camera rockily zooms in on one of the surgeons who is holding a circular surgical saw covered in dried blood.
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~doc/mountainbiking/roundsmartsmountain/ After the trail reaches the height of land, it descends sometimes steeply and often rockily.
https://web.archive.org/web/20060212182830/http://etcweb1.princeton.edu/CampusWWW/Companion/goheen_robert.html Patient, always humane and trustworthy, he is personally humble at the very time that he is rockily steadfast (an unsympathetic witness might say stubborn), not because he fails to understand and respect the views of others but because he refuses to compromise his own enduring values.
Ten minutes before serving whisk up the whites of eggs with a little sugar and pile rockily on top.
Roads, railway, river, streams, a world in accurate and lively detail, with mountains sticking up abruptly and rockily, as the old painters painted it.
https://web.archive.org/web/20051221172204/http://www.trumanlibrary.org/hoover/mccoy1.htm They would gain much in common only slowly, and I should add rockily, for the early stages of their acquaintance was based substantially on mutual self-interest.
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Rockily means In an uneven way; in a rocking manner..
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https://web.archive.org/web/20060508091041/http://www.michaelmcfadyenscuba.info/articles/earprob.htm We arrive there five minutes later and I sit up very rockily. I have to get off this boat, I am getting sick.
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