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Wordnet 3.0

ADVERB (2)

1. with spasms;
- Example: "the mouth was slightly open, and jerked violently and spasmodically at one corner"
[syn: spasmodically, jerkily]

2. with jerking motions;
- Example: "She rose stiffly, jerkily from the window seat"


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

jerkily adv 1: with spasms; "the mouth was slightly open, and jerked violently and spasmodically at one corner" [syn: spasmodically, jerkily] 2: with jerking motions; "She rose stiffly, jerkily from the window seat"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

48 Moby Thesaurus words for "jerkily": 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