squirmy
Americanadjective
adjective
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moving with a wriggling motion
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making one squirm
Other Word Forms
- squirminess noun
Etymology
Origin of squirmy
Example Sentences
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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
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
Gliding inexorably from squirmy to sinister to full-on shocking, this icy satire of middle-class mores, confidently directed by Christian Tafdrup, is utterly fearless in its mission to unsettle.
From New York Times • Sep. 8, 2022
“We did it, Fig,” I whispered, holding his gray squirmy body.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
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