uncertainly
advUK /ʌnˈsɜːtən.li/ · US /ʌnˈsɜɹ.tən.li/
Etymology From Middle English uncerteynliche, uncertanlye. By surface analysis, uncertain + -ly or un- + certainly.
1
In an uncertain manner.
- "No — don't you get it?" said Rimmer. ¶ "Get what?" said Kryten, uncertainly.1990, Grant Naylor, Better Than Life:
- I sketch the place of others, pinning them down with objective confidence within an institutional, urban, or rural landscape, yet only failingly, uncertainly, imagine where I really belong[…]2007, Edward F. Mooney, On Søren Kierkegaard, page 195: