0 someone who speaks or says something, especially the first part of a word, with difficulty, for example pausing or repeating a sound several times:
1 in a way that is not regular, or sometimes moves or changes and sometimes does not:
The country has modernized itself, albeit somewhat stutteringly.
I asked the parent if she wanted to change schools, and she stutteringly said that she did not.
I stutteringly asked him if he'd like to come with me.
It's a notably terrible performance in a film that's wearily bombastic and stutteringly paced.
A harsh grinding, unmusical as emery upon hollow bronze, rasped stutteringly in the head phones.
It is conceivable that a person who is trying to remember the event accurately will speak slowly and stutteringly, or at least with hesitation at the moment.
