angsty

British  

/ ˈæŋstɪ /

adjective

1. informal displaying or feeling angst, esp in a self-conscious manner

   two angsty teenagers

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Example Sentences

One character—the franchise’s designated angsty nerd, played by Jemaine Clement—actually shouts, “I did not sign up for this!”

From The Wall Street Journal

And for the people who grew up on a diet of “Alien” and its spinoffs, angsty alternative rock fits that spirit.

From Salon

Hayley Williams, “Parachute” Being angsty has never not been cool.

From Los Angeles Times

Ms. Danes has always been a marvelous actress; there are moments in “The Beast in Me” in which she reminds us of Beth March getting a piano for Christmas in “Little Women,” or her more angsty moments of national insecurity in “Homeland.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Mr. Cooper, a not-great filmmaker who specializes in strained would-be prestige pictures that don’t quite come off—“Out of the Furnace,” “Hostiles,” “The Pale Blue Eye”—trots out such corny devices as having Springsteen spot his younger self in a crowd so Mr. White can dial up Angsty Gaze No. 391.

From The Wall Street Journal