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What does quavery mean?

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Adjective
  1. Apt to quaver; shaky, trembling. [from 16th c.]
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But a thin and quavery and over-disturbing sound from the swing-box out on the sleeping-porch brought me up short.
Her voice is quiet and warm and sometimes quavery, with an occasional crack in it that fleetingly calls up Billie Holiday.
At that Grannie fell to rocking herself as well as the child, and to singing a hymn in a quavery voice.
They were all ballads, all sung in a yearning quavery tenor that didn't seem ready to settle anywhere anytime soon and accompanied by the most rudimentary strummed guitar.
Majeski, a fine young soprano, sounded a touch thin and quavery on this outing.
A thin, quavery rendering of Make Me A Channel Of Your Peace is unworthy of anybody's life.

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