rockily

Adverb

rockily (comparative more rockily, superlative most rockily)

1. In an uneven way; in a rocking manner.
   • https://web.archive.org/web/20060508091041/http://www.michaelmcfadyenscuba.info/articles/earprob.htm
     We arrive there five minutes later and I sit up very rockily. I have to get off this boat, I am getting sick.
   • https://web.archive.org/web/20050217043222/http://www.talkcinema.com/reviews/cannes9907.html
     French actress Sophie Marceau entered rockily on heels
2. In a manner suggestive of a rock or rocks.
   • Ten minutes before serving whisk up the whites of eggs with a little sugar and pile rockily on top.1956, “Apple a Day”, in The Times
   • http://www.dartmouth.edu/~doc/mountainbiking/roundsmartsmountain/
     After the trail reaches the height of land, it descends sometimes steeply and often rockily.
3. Unsteadily; inconsistently or resulting in volatility.
   • https://web.archive.org/web/20051221172204/http://www.trumanlibrary.org/hoover/mccoy1.htm
     They would gain much in common only slowly, and I should add rockily, for the early stages of their acquaintance was based substantially on mutual self-interest.
   • Having murdered her lecherous grandfather as he attempts an anal assault, Ludmila finds herself catapulted into a rockily conceived exercise in damage-control2006 February 24, Liz Jensen, “Ludmila's Broken English, by D B C Pierre”, in The Independent
4. In a manner suggestive of rock music.
   • https://web.archive.org/web/20060504130636/http://www.albemarle-london.com/notredame.html
     The music of Richard Cocciante, the book and lyrics of Luc Plamondon, with the lyrics translated by Will Jennings, are consistently and rockily entertaining
   • https://web.archive.org/web/20060429210002/http://www.atticlights.co.uk/about.html
     Top of the three here is “Ton Of Love”, a back beaten Tom Petty-ish album tracker with Beach Boy backing vox, slick and, get this, rockily abrasive.