as in fidgety
making jerky or restless movements
examining the twitchy little poodle was a challenge for the vet
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Recent Examples of twitchy
Just look at KuveNiemann’s crooked grin, frozen, faraway eyes and twitchy bearing.
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Theater Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Mar. 2026
Keith and Chantal Tkachuk were in the stands, where Keith had noticed his sons were looking twitchy just before puck drop.
—Becky Sullivan, NPR, 18 Feb. 2026
Recruiting analysts have described him as twitchy and elite with long-term potential.
—Myah Taylor, Dallas Morning News, 10 Feb. 2026
Fans were twitchy and the administration grew impatient.
—Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 18 Jan. 2026
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Theater Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Mar. 2026
Keith and Chantal Tkachuk were in the stands, where Keith had noticed his sons were looking twitchy just before puck drop.
—Becky Sullivan, NPR, 18 Feb. 2026
Recruiting analysts have described him as twitchy and elite with long-term potential.
—Myah Taylor, Dallas Morning News, 10 Feb. 2026
Fans were twitchy and the administration grew impatient.
—Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 18 Jan. 2026
See All Example Sentences for twitchy
Recent Examples of Synonyms for twitchy
Adjective
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Even Jason notices the guests are fidgety.—
Rafaela Bassili,
Vulture,
24 Feb. 2026
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The two go toe-to-toe in power and precision, but the Breville’s intuitive assembly is a massive improvement on the Cuisinart’s notoriously fidgety and fussy locking mechanisms.—
Noah Kaufman,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
29 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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With that disclosure out in the open, the rest of the squirmy attendees subtly sank deeper into their seats, accepting Steinem’s orbit as a safe space.—
Savannah Walsh,
Vanity Fair,
22 Apr. 2026
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One of them is a squirmy, intensely relatable dark comedy about the escalating horrors of planning a wedding.—
Hannah Jocelyn,
New Yorker,
3 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Teaching first grade has always involved dealing with wiggly and talkative kids.—
Stacker,
Hartford Courant,
9 May 2026
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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.—
Yasemin Saplakoglu,
Quanta Magazine,
9 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Last month, despite Orbán’s formidable, long-standing attempts to rig the legal and electoral systems in his favor, Magyar won, in a stunning upset.—
Andrew Marantz,
New Yorker,
9 May 2026
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Gunther was upset that Rhodes was taking his screen time.—
Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
9 May 2026
Adjective
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At Cal Poly Pomona, director of media relations Cynthia Peters directed students and staff who were worried about being unable to access their course materials as a result of the incident to a Reddit post uploaded by the school’s Bookstore faculty on Thursday.—
Kristy Hutchings,
Daily News,
7 May 2026
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But locals are worried that other companies could move in.—
NPR,
NPR,
7 May 2026
Adjective
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In the draft room, Bisciotti looked nervous as the pick approached, worried another team — or even his own GM — might snag Randall.—
Michael Silver,
New York Times,
27 Apr. 2026
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Some nervous Democrats and their allies worry that language could thwart installation of a Democratic majority in the next Congress.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Speech is converted to text, processed by a language model, and passed through a personality layer designed to mimic C-3PO’s formal, anxious tone.—
Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
4 May 2026
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The sixth Kathy is an anxious traveler.—
Brian Moylan,
Vulture,
4 May 2026
Adjective
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Boudreau and Ducks center Ryan Getzlaf grew antsy on the bench and so Boudreau pulled Kesler off Toews and sent Getzlaf onto the ice.—
Elliott Teaford,
Oc Register,
4 May 2026
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Washington is getting antsy about the power imbalance.—
Matteo Wong,
The Atlantic,
27 Apr. 2026
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“Twitchy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/twitchy. Accessed 11 May. 2026.
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