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
Beyond the usual Hollywood impulse to try to increase art-house-sized audiences to big box-office levels, there was really no reason to remake Danish filmmaker Christian Tafdrup’s squirmy hell-is-other-people scenario.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2024
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
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
I was around four years old when she was born, and I remember this tiny, squirmy baby girl with a big, beautiful Afro of soft curls appearing in our home.
From "How Dare the Sun Rise" by Sandra Uwiringiyimana
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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