Teeteringly

adv

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Adverb
  1. 1
    While teetering, or as if teetering.

    "We feel more dangerously, teeteringly close to disease and death (in a slow, rotting, swamp-induced fashion) than we did during the war in Rhodesia..."

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delicatelyweakly

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"We feel more dangerously, teeteringly close to disease and death (in a slow, rotting, swamp-induced fashion) than we did during the war in Rhodesia..."

Etymology

From teetering + -ly.

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