as in twitchy
making jerky or restless movements
I get too fidgety to sit after a few minutes in a waiting room
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Recent Examples of fidgety
Karinchak, who is notoriously fidgety on the mound, was charged with a ball on an 0-2 count to the Mariners’ J.P. Crawford.
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Tyler Kepner,
New York Times,
2 Apr. 2023
Before Globe Santa and after Globe Santa: One showing a bored, fidgety child and harried mom; the other, a happy child and happy mom.
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Ellen Bartlett,
BostonGlobe.com,
9 Dec. 2022
Often encircled by his rapt yet fidgety students, Dance Teacher Pat (Michael Wood) is a zealot who saddles his team with a choreographed tribute to Gandhi.
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Celia Wren,
Washington Post,
23 Oct. 2022
Our planet is a shifting mass of molten rock that continually migrates beneath the crust; even the deep mantle and its overlying upper mantle are fidgety, causing earthquakes.
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Manasee Wagh,
Popular Mechanics,
16 Aug. 2022
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Tyler Kepner,
New York Times,
2 Apr. 2023
Before Globe Santa and after Globe Santa: One showing a bored, fidgety child and harried mom; the other, a happy child and happy mom.
—
Ellen Bartlett,
BostonGlobe.com,
9 Dec. 2022
Often encircled by his rapt yet fidgety students, Dance Teacher Pat (Michael Wood) is a zealot who saddles his team with a choreographed tribute to Gandhi.
—
Celia Wren,
Washington Post,
23 Oct. 2022
Our planet is a shifting mass of molten rock that continually migrates beneath the crust; even the deep mantle and its overlying upper mantle are fidgety, causing earthquakes.
—
Manasee Wagh,
Popular Mechanics,
16 Aug. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fidgety
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Atlanta artist Truett Dietz’s twitchy, colorful, anxiety-laden drawings at Wolfgang Gallery are visions of our brains on internet.
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But the potential for a face-plant remains, especially given the large percentage of shares that will be doled out to retail investors who are, by and large, big Musk fans but also tend to be twitchy.
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Simply set out bowls of coffee grounds among your outdoor seating areas to prevent ants, mosquitoes, fruit flies, and squirmy critters from crashing your barbecue.
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Fjord is a squirmy drama in which Stan and Renate Reinsve play a married couple who move with their five children from Romania to Norway to be closer to Reinsve’s mother, only to draw the interest of child protective services when a teacher at school spots bruises on one of the kids.
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Teaching first grade has always involved dealing with wiggly and talkative kids.
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At the edges of the channel, near the walls, Rout and Lim’s team saw rapid fluctuations of molecules — those were the wiggly nucleoporins.
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Now, multiple residents are left worried about what's to come next week with extremely hot temperatures in the forecast.
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With voters nationwide worried about inflation and the rising cost of living, some Californians might feel less inclined to provide full healthcare coverage to those lacking legal status.
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Katie Wilson won an upset victory to lead Seattle last fall.
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This is an odd thing to be upset about.
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Oprah selected it for her book club; at her compound in Montecito, Whitehead was so nervous that her staff insisted on blow-drying the damp patches of his dress shirt before they were introduced.
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The low unemployment rate had made many economists nervous, including some on the Fed.
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Though fans are anxious to see Andrade return to more events, her job in Rio is done.
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Homeless, his body torn, Odysseus needs to get back to her and Telemachus, his anxious son, and to clean up the mess.
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In 1979, stand-ups working at the Comedy Store started getting antsy.
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Whether bored, antsy, or both, Louis began swaying his hips from side to side and dancing to the music.
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“Fidgety.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fidgety. Accessed 1 Jul. 2026.
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