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Jerkiness

noun
1.
The quality of being spasmodic and irregular.  Synonym: fitfulness.





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"Jerkiness" Quotes from Famous Books



... she held out her hand to me with simple friendliness, and smiled to me as graciously as she did to Ivan Ivanitch—that pleased me; but as she talked she moved her fingers, often and abruptly leaned back in her chair and talked rapidly, and this jerkiness in her words and movements irritated me and reminded me of her native town—Odessa, where the society, men and women alike, had wearied me ...
— The Wife and Other Stories • Anton Chekhov


Words linked to "Jerkiness" :   fitfulness, unregularity, irregularity, spasticity, jerky


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