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English
Etymology
From nervous + -ly.
Adverb
nervously (comparative more nervously, superlative most nervously)
- In a nervous manner; feeling or displaying nervousness.
He paced nervously as he waited for the important phone call.
1919, Christopher Morley, The Haunted Bookshop, New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, →OCLC, page 171:Then he could see the modest bookseller, somewhat clammy in his extremities and lost within his academic robe and hood, nervously fidgeting his mortar-board, haled forward by ushers, and tottering rubescent before the chancellor, provost, president (or whoever it might be) who hands out the diploma.
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