squirmy
Americanadjective
adjective
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moving with a wriggling motion
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making one squirm
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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
Choreographed by ECB artistic director and former PNB principal dancer Wade Walthall, this longtime “Nutcracker” comes in two flavors: one full-length with intermission, and one hourlong version ideal for squirmy kids.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 15, 2023
Audrey projectile-vomits all over the client-to-be, enduring the kind of squirmy ritual humiliation that awaits many an insecure, tightly wound comedy protagonist.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 6, 2023
The spikes on the surface of that virus, too, were squirmy and unstable, taking one form before invading a cell and another afterward.
From New York Times • Feb. 23, 2023
“Imagine her saying that after all we did for her,” he said, then noticed me staring at him, and said in a kind of squirmy way, “What?” and then, more squirmily, “What?”
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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