insecurely
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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Bold yet insubstantial, “Love Hurts” insecurely asks the score to do too much work, pounding away at a funky spy track before unconvincingly pivoting to something sincere.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2025
"It's good if you are tech savvy - so for low or insecurely paid young workers - but less so if you are a pensioner on a low income," she adds.
From BBC • Mar. 28, 2022
It seems not long at all in Foxhoven’s case, but who hasn’t wondered aloud to colleagues, often and insecurely, about your intra-office legacy?
From The Guardian • Jul. 18, 2019
Holt: Benoit Mandelbrot, who from what I hear was unpleasantly and insecurely egomaniacal.
From Scientific American • Jul. 7, 2018
As the curses came shooting across the intervening space again, Hagrid swerved and zigzagged: Harry knew that Hagrid did not dare use the dragon-fire button again, with Harry seated so insecurely.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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