unsteadily

1. In an unsteady manner, so as to shake or falter.

   He climbed the stairs unsteadily, grasping the banister and gasping for breath.

2. In an uncertain manner; with hesitation or timidity.
   • 1912 January, Zane Grey, chapter 21, in Riders of the Purple Sage: A Novel, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, OCLC 6868219 ↗:

     "I reckon. It's powerful fine to hear that," replied Lassiter, unsteadily.