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Synonyms for tottering:


adj. unstable

dizzy
fluctuating
moving
suspect
teetering
unsettled
vacillating
wavering
weaving
ambiguous
borderline
capricious
changeable
dubious
erratic
fickle
fitful
giddy
inconsistent
inconstant
insecure
irrational
lubricious
mercurial
mobile
movable
mutable
precarious
rickety
risky
rocky
sensitive
shaky
shifty
slippery
temperamental
ticklish
tottery
tricky
uncertain
unpredictable
unsteady
untrustworthy
variable
volatile
weak
wiggly
wobbly

adj. insecure

exposed
loose
rootless
vacillating
wavering
defenseless
fluctuant
frail
hazardous
immature
infirm
insubstantial
perilous
precarious
rickety
rocky
shaky
tottery
unguarded
unprotected
unreliable
unsafe
unshielded
unsound
unstable
unsteady
unsure
vulnerable
weak
wobbly

Examples of uses:

But they went tottering away after some older woman, the louses.
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So go, if you're able, to somewhere unstable And stay there, Whip up your hate in some tottering state
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What news? What news, in this our tottering state?
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Corpus name: OpenSubtitles2018. License: not specified. References: http://opus.nlpl.eu/OpenSubtitles2018.php, http://stp.lingfil.uu.se/~joerg/paper/opensubs2016.pdf
It says that certain party is tottering and every time he's tottering I am tittering!
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With this little lot, you'll be tottering down to the bank.
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Corpus name: OpenSubtitles2018. License: not specified. References: http://opus.nlpl.eu/OpenSubtitles2018.php, http://stp.lingfil.uu.se/~joerg/paper/opensubs2016.pdf
And so in Speedy's fancy, Chet Trask was tottering on his throne ...
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Corpus name: OpenSubtitles2018. License: not specified. References: http://opus.nlpl.eu/OpenSubtitles2018.php, http://stp.lingfil.uu.se/~joerg/paper/opensubs2016.pdf
But what they don't know is the Paul Lavond they're looking for is Madame Mandilip, a poor, tottering old woman.
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I was just over there, the flagpole was tottering, so what did I do?
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Corpus name: OpenSubtitles2018. License: not specified. References: http://opus.nlpl.eu/OpenSubtitles2018.php, http://stp.lingfil.uu.se/~joerg/paper/opensubs2016.pdf
I've just discovered I'm a tottering, dull old man.
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Corpus name: OpenSubtitles2018. License: not specified. References: http://opus.nlpl.eu/OpenSubtitles2018.php, http://stp.lingfil.uu.se/~joerg/paper/opensubs2016.pdf
The flagpole was tottering back there, so what did I do?
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Corpus name: OpenSubtitles2018. License: not specified. References: http://opus.nlpl.eu/OpenSubtitles2018.php, http://stp.lingfil.uu.se/~joerg/paper/opensubs2016.pdf

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