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Definition of angsty
angstier
;angstiest
informal
: feeling, showing, or expressing anxiety, apprehension, or insecurity : marked by angst angsty teenagers angsty song lyrics
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After all, remember Ghost World’s angsty Enid, played by a bespectacled Thora Birth?
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If grunge prized murky guitar textures, pounding drums and lumbering bass lines with attitudinally angsty shouting, other bands were making slightly more sensitive music.
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This funny and relatable tale from the writer who crafted many of the mishap-laden stories on Murphy Brown and Spin City delivers the perfect escapist read in these angsty political times.
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The first Emo Nite was supposed to be a small gathering of friends, a toast to the rock subculture that brought angsty hooks and whiny vocals to the mainstream in the early to mid-2000s.
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Joshua Harmon’s angsty comedy moves to Broadway, starring Gideon Glick as a gay New Yorker searching for a life partner as his female friends keep finding husbands.
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Now that the angsty adolescents of the ’90s have become the key demographic for advertisers, MTV has become the latest brand to enter the hallowed land of Retrostan.
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