At the extremes, that ability can push people toward crafting more and more elaborate alternate realities, rickety structures that expand into elegant patterns but that stand on unsteady bases of support.
Trumpworld’s latest effort to undermine the Russia probe may be even less substantive than prior attempts|Philip Bump|October 7, 2020|Washington Post
Many of their students are disproportionately burdened by loan debt, and come from families with unsteady financial fortunes.
A Pandemic Problem, Or Just an Excuse to Deny HBCUs More Funding?|Truthbetold|July 7, 2020|TruthBeTold.news
He discovered his friend—the worse for wear and unsteady on her feet—in the second-floor living room.
‘I Saved My Friend From Bill Cosby’|Lloyd Grove|December 3, 2014|DAILY BEAST
You stand on an unsteady pontoon bridge spanning the Tigris River in a township called Adh Dhouloueya.
Whatever You Do Someone Will Die. A Short Story About Impossible Choices in Iraq|Nathan Bradley Bethea|August 31, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Besides worrying about how the models would walk on the unsteady ground, audience members knew something magical would happen.
Phillip Lim's Force of Nature|Erin Cunningham|September 9, 2013|DAILY BEAST
It is impossible to letter well in a cramped or unsteady position.
Letters and Lettering|Frank Chouteau Brown
It has no part to unsteady the hands of the reconstructionists.
The Hive|Will Levington Comfort
She opened the door of her bedroom with hasty, unsteady fingers.
The Gambler|Katherine Cecil Thurston
We have an unsteady and unreliable population; and the daily interior guard duty, for the city proper, requires over 300 men.
Reports of the Committee on the Conduct of the War|United States Senate
Nancy lowered her voice mysteriously, and looked back into the little room where Vanna's unsteady figure moved from bed to chair.
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume IV, Georgia Narratives, Part 1|Work Projects Administration
British Dictionary definitions for unsteady
unsteady
/ (ʌnˈstɛdɪ) /
adjective
not securely fixedan unsteady foothold
(of behaviour, etc) lacking constancy; erratic
without regularityan unsteady rhythm
(of a manner of walking, etc) precarious, staggering, as from intoxication