Examples of worrywart in a Sentence
My father is a real worrywart.
tends to dismiss people concerned about global warming as a bunch of worrywarts
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But the worrywart is now overdue for yet another detour, physically and metaphorically.
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Courtney Howard, Variety, 16 Nov. 2023
Each relied on what came to be viewed as a formula: verbal banter, cultural erudition, visual elegance and, of course, the filmmaker’s own on-screen persona of a talkative worrywart.
—Peter Tonguette, WSJ, 11 Aug. 2023
Instead, the Monday-morning quarterbacks of world affairs reasoned that the whole Y2K thing was the overthinking of IT worrywarts and catastrophizing futurists.
—Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 29 May 2023
Catastrophe has a way of sneaking up on Birbiglia, who has been invited back by Center Theatre Group for another amusing session of yarn-spinning from a world-class worrywart who, like those paranoids with enemies, genuinely has things to worry about.
—Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2022
So what's a worrywart to do?
—Star Tribune, 24 July 2021
So what’s a worrywart to do?
—Scott Burns, Dallas News, 18 July 2021
Then came the pandemic and the resurgence of worrywart investing.
—William Baldwin, Forbes, 19 June 2021
By contrast to his boss, Barker’s partner, Thomas Lewellyn — the book’s narrator — is about 30, married, eager to have a child and rather a worrywart.
—Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2022
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Courtney Howard, Variety, 16 Nov. 2023
Each relied on what came to be viewed as a formula: verbal banter, cultural erudition, visual elegance and, of course, the filmmaker’s own on-screen persona of a talkative worrywart.
—Peter Tonguette, WSJ, 11 Aug. 2023
Instead, the Monday-morning quarterbacks of world affairs reasoned that the whole Y2K thing was the overthinking of IT worrywarts and catastrophizing futurists.
—Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 29 May 2023
Catastrophe has a way of sneaking up on Birbiglia, who has been invited back by Center Theatre Group for another amusing session of yarn-spinning from a world-class worrywart who, like those paranoids with enemies, genuinely has things to worry about.
—Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2022
So what's a worrywart to do?
—Star Tribune, 24 July 2021
So what’s a worrywart to do?
—Scott Burns, Dallas News, 18 July 2021
Then came the pandemic and the resurgence of worrywart investing.
—William Baldwin, Forbes, 19 June 2021
By contrast to his boss, Barker’s partner, Thomas Lewellyn — the book’s narrator — is about 30, married, eager to have a child and rather a worrywart.
—Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2022
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First Known Use
1936, in the meaning defined above
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“Worrywart.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/worrywart. Accessed 9 Dec. 2023.
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worrywart
noun
wor·ry·wart
ˈwər-ē-ˌwȯrt 
ˈwə-rē-
: a person who worries without reasonable cause
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