Adjective, : a jumpy narrative. From Dictionary.com.
The compass was oscillating less jumpily, and it was now possible to see some distance ahead. From Wordnik.com. [Round the World in Seven Days] Reference
France's president, in his thoughts and actions, is jumpily unpredictable, playing opera seria and opera buffa in turn. From Wordnik.com. [Lord Weidenfeld of Chelsea: 20th Anniversary of the Fall of the Wall] Reference
The scenes with the small spiders climbing over Reggie had me brushing my arms and jumpily checking my body for spiders long after I had read the scene. From Wordnik.com. [Book Chick City] Reference
Telling herself to try and relax, Sophie knew there was fat chance of any such thing if she continued to react as jumpily as a cat walking on burning coals around him. From Wordnik.com. [Mistress On Demand]
In so doing, I gulped a heaping cup of coffee and wound up jumpily awake until an ungodly enough hour to catch the third (Why?) showing of Chris Matthews '“Hardball” program. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference
I concentrate on the swirls as the plane begins to hurtle towards a hedge like a dirt bike with wings, jumpily gathering speed for lift-off, the grass around us blowing smooth and flat. From Wordnik.com. [The art of aerobatic wing walking] Reference
Pilar, as jumpily as if she rode a trotting horse. From Wordnik.com. [The Car of Destiny] Reference
But this incessant crackling made Una jumpily anxious. From Wordnik.com. [The Job An American Novel] Reference
Then it was away, moving jumpily with its half-wrecked side tubes, but nevertheless escaping. From Wordnik.com. [The Devil's Asteroid] Reference
But the question becomes whether jumpily edited copies of paintings are an improvement over jumpy viewers. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
As she watched, its headlights came on and it lurched forward, stalled, re-started and then proceeded to drive jumpily past the Miller house. From Wordnik.com. [The Morning News] Reference
"But how did he get in?" cried Singh jumpily and with a good deal of catching of the breath, for in his haste he kept on getting into difficulties with his buttons and the holes through which they ought to have passed. From Wordnik.com. [Glyn Severn's Schooldays] Reference
Yeah, that's right, "said Zaphod jumpily. From Wordnik.com. [The Restaurant at the End of the Universe]
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