falteringly
- r in an unsteady manner
- Some parents, embarrassed because their kids casually chattered with maids whom the adults falteringly addressed in crude "kitchen Spanish," persuaded Superintendent Brown to start .
- As recounted in their book All the President's Men (Simon Schuster), to be published in June, the collaboration began falteringly.
- Some of them, despite the title and the falteringly worldly tone of the picture, actually treat him quite badly.