nervously

adv

1. In a nervous manner; feeling or displaying nervousness.

   “He paced nervously as he waited for the important phone call.”

   “Then he could see the modest bookseller, somewhat clammy in his extremities and lost within his academic robe and hood, nervously fidgeting his mortar-board, haled forward by ushers, and tottering rubescent before the chancellor, provost, president (or whoever it might be) who hands out the diploma.”

   “She nervously undressed in the dancing beams of the Fidra lighthouse, giving it all away before it's too late”