handwringing

Or hand-wring·ing,

[hand-ring-ing]

noun

1. a physical expression of concern, distress, or guilt.

2. the nervous grasping or squeezing of the hands as a sign of these feelings.

Other Word Forms

• handwringer noun

Example Sentences

All these iterations of female friendship received their fair share of hatred and handwringing in the popular culture of their time.

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"He didn't let US government clucking and handwringing stop him," says Robert Carlin.

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The handwringing at players fighting after the Ohio State and Michigan game, among others, ignores the inherent violence of the sport.

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As Damascus echoes with celebratory gunfire at Assad's downfall, most Syrians won't share the American handwringing.

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With all the lugubrious handwringing over Biden and the Democrats saying Trump is a threat to democracy, nobody seems to care that his instinct in that horrible moment was to incite more violence.

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