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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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
Tan eventually becomes controlled by birds, feeding them 700-800 squirmy beetle larvae a day at a cost of some $250 a month.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 30, 2024
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
And even if they feel good, it gives me a squirmy, itchy feeling to think about going into the race without having done all the training exactly as I planned it.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
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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