Similar words: nerve, nerves, unnerve, nervous, unnerved, enervate, nerve cell, unnerving. Meaning: ['nɜrvɪ /'nɜːvɪ] 
adj. 1. being in a tense state 2. showing or requiring courage and contempt of danger 3. offensively bold.
adj. 1. being in a tense state 2. showing or requiring courage and contempt of danger 3. offensively bold. 
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(1) Alan was irritable, and very evidently in a nervy state.
(2) I'm always nervy before an exam.
(3) She was all tired and nervy.
(4) You seem quite nervy this morning.
(5) John liked him because he was a nervy guy and would go out and shoot anybody who John wanted him to shoot.
(6) He was nervy and on edge.
(7) Macy brilliantly shows Teach to be a nervy outsider who desperately wants to be part of the game.
(8) His companion was thin and nervy and carried a notebook.
(9) Harriet's Aunt Gertrude, a nervy spinster who lived with Uncle Bertie's household, sat as still as possible.
(10) She began to swim with her nervy, graceless stroke and Nick watched her sympathetically.
(11) The nervy feats of the mountaineers were lauded.
(12) You're getting awfully nervy.
(13) Why is it doctor that I am always so nervy(sentencedict.com/nervy.html), tense and ready to jump on anybody.
(14) He understands the manic rhythms of a city that borders on the irrational, yet still embodies a nervy humanity.
(15) The film itself is preceded by an elaborately ironic but nervy disclaimer about it being just a joke.
(16) We see him notebook in hand, endowed only with a nervy, unapplied curiosity.
(17) Sometimes dad was nice to us, but sometimes he was bad-tempered and nervy.
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