With pitiful clothing and a handful of bills with him, an old man asked with quavering voice whether he could pay his bills here.
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Quavering
Synonyms for "quavering" (109 found)
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More general
13 entriesattitudinal descriptordescriptive adjectiveemotional state adjectivehesitationmovementspeech actspeech attributespeech phenomenonstate descriptortremoruncertaintyvocalizationvoice quality
More specific
15 entriesdoubthand tremorhesitant assertionlip tremormurmurmutternervousnessquavering voiceshaky tonestammertremulous articulationuncertain stanceunsteady commitmentunsteady voicevoice tremor
Collocations
15 entriespitch instabilityquaver in voicequavered voicequavering breathquavering syllablequavering tonequavering voicequavering whispershaky voicespeech tremortremulous tonetremulous voiceunstable voicevocal tremorvoice tremor
Inflections
5 entriesDerivations
5 entriessimilar
1 entriesSample sentences
2 total sentences available.
the quaverings and warblings in lutes and pipes
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