nervously

From nervous +‎ -ly.

nervously (comparative more nervously, superlative most nervously)

In a nervous manner; feeling or displaying nervousness.
He paced nervously as he waited for the important phone call.
- 1919, Christopher Morley, The Haunted Bookshop‎, New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, →OCLC, page 171:
  Then he could see the modest bookseller, somewhat clammy in his extremities and lost within his academic robe and hood, nervously fidgeting his mortar-board, haled forward by ushers, and tottering rubescent before the chancellor, provost, president (or whoever it might be) who hands out the diploma.

in a nervous manner

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