'jerkily' definitions:
Definition of 'jerkily'
(from WordNet)
adverb
With spasms; "the mouth was slightly open, and jerked violently and spasmodically at one corner" [syn: spasmodically, jerkily]
adverb
With jerking motions; "She rose stiffly, jerkily from the window seat"
Synonyms of 'jerkily'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- at irregular intervals,
- at random,
- brokenly,
- by catches,
- by fits,
- by jerks,
- by snatches,
- capriciously,
- desultorily,
- disconnectedly,
- discontinuously,
- eccentrically,
- erratically,
- fitfully,
- flutteringly,
- haltingly,
- in snatches,
- in spots,
- inconstantly,
- intermittently,
- irregularly,
- lurchingly,
- nonuniformly,
- off and on,
- patchily,
- quakingly,
- quaveringly,
- quiveringly,
- roughly,
- saltatorily,
- shakily,
- shudderingly,
- spasmodically,
- sporadically,
- spottily,
- tremblingly,
- tremulously,
- uncertainly,
- unevenly,
- unmethodically,
- unpredictably,
- unrhythmically,
- unsteadily,
- unsystematically,
- variably,
- waveringly,
- whimsically,
- wobblingly