uptight
adjective
tense, nervous, or jittery.
uptightness
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a word derived from
uptight.
Example Sentences
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Arti Gollapudi plays all three of Deepali’s older sisters, for example, differing mainly by degrees of uptightness.
From New York Times ● Nov. 20, 2023
I like uptightness because it’s part of my experience.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2023
Nothing works, and she insists it is all a joke, because my uptightness is “hilarious.”
From Slate ● May 4, 2021
We may congratulate ourselves for being beyond such uptightness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2015
"I wonder, though, where it came from, this petty-bourgeois uptightness, this terror of not being in control, this schoolboy desire to boast and to shock."
From The Guardian ● Jul. 28, 2010
