squirmy
Americanadjective
adjective
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moving with a wriggling motion
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making one squirm
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Origin of squirmy
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At St. Anne School in Santa Monica, I watched Cummins harness the squirmy energy of second-graders wielding xylophone mallets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2026
Yet in some ways, Pivotal’s technology is even more audacious, in that it puts a human pilot—potentially a squirmy, Earth-hugging rookie like me—squarely into the control loop of a flying machine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025
Lauren is a ceramic artist whose porcelains sport signature grotesqueries, usually of a squirmy sort, such as a teapot with “a revolting brown worm crawling along the spout,” and “a slug depicted on the underside.”
From Washington Post ● Feb. 9, 2023
“I always had known her to be positive, upbeat, looks you in the eye, lovely energy,” Zuniga said, but here “she seemed upset, squirmy, agitated.”
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 14, 2022
There was not a peep, a squeak, a rustle, not even from the squirmy Georgie.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein,” published in 1818, and Bram Stoker’s “Dracula,” released in 1897, are stranger, squirmier novels than their pop-culture legacies suggest.
From New York Times ● Feb. 17, 2020
Because of this, the squirmier subjects who were initially enrolled in the study had to be yanked.
From The Verge ● Apr. 13, 2016
But sometimes, the squirmiest thing about a play isn’t the play itself, but how the audience reacts to it.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 15, 2018
Doonan relays the squirmiest details from a “hospitality insider” and traces the most bizarre hotel room behavior in recent history.
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2012
It's the squirmiest amalgam of self-criticism, hate letter and proto-reality TV.
From Time ● Sep. 15, 2010
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