Vebrado, adj.; an effort to overcome or deny fear with courageous spoken words that miscarries when they are uttered in a tremulous voice that has the unintentional effect of expressing or revealing the fear.
"Fighting back the terror that threatened to turn his knees into jelly, our hero sought to issue a defiant rejoinder to the Inqusitor's sneer, but the words came out instead in a quaking vebrado."
