0 If your voice is quavery, it shakes slightly, usually because you are nervous, frightened, sad, etc.:
Margaret's voice was still quavery.
"What do you want?" she asked, furious with herself for producing such a high, quavery sound.
the quavery indecision of her voice
Curtis confides in a quavering voice that he's been feeling sad and lonely as one of the few college students living in a violent housing project.
It came out each a quavery, hissing failure that the ones in the boat, pushing away from the sloop, peered and chuckled.
The thin voice suffered the quavery attrition of surprise.
That brought a smile to her lips--a quavery, uncertain little smile but an augury of better ones to come.
She looked in a recipe book, stirred, clapped her hands, sang hair-raising incantations in a quavery voice, and added a pinch of salt and sulfur.
