squirm

Quote

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Definition

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to be uncomfortable (metaphorically); to wriggle (literally)

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If you’ve ever done something just to make someone uncomfortable, you did it to watch him or her squirm. If your brother can’t find his keys and you know where they are but don’t tell him just to be mean, you did it to watch him squirm.

But things can make you squirm, too. If there’s a really awkward or violent scene in a movie, it might make you squirm in both senses of the word. You might physically wriggle in place as well as feel uncomfortable.

Ryan Gosling feels that he does his best acting when he’s a little uncomfortable. Roles like a skinhead Jew in The Believer and a drug-addicted teacher in Half Nelson make Gosling squirm, but they’re also his best work.

Examples

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“I let him go on about how bad he feels about cheating on me before I told him that I had cheated on him too because I wanted to watch him squirm.”

“Can’t you kids sit still? You’re driving everyone on this plane crazy with your squirming!
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Winners

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	make himself feel uncomfortable, to create an unusual and stressful situation in order to start working on it and moving on by laola2007
	To feel very uncomfortable or embarrassment, especially because of shame. by jpsartre1
	to twist your body about,as if from discomfort or nervousness by Faustine
	to move around by making small twisting movements by malhiboblz
	to writhe, wriggle by DerIschkan
	He likes to make himself nevous. by monicalo
	Wriggle by ihi
	its means twisting your body or wriggle with shy or embarassment..i guess suppose i say he squirm when someone praised him in the party..is it correct? Anna (the guest) by Anna9
	the act of wiggling by highlook
	to be embarrassed by oceangirl05
	to wriggle along or to feel shame by Imelda Pera
	make himself uncomfortable (mentally?!) to fit the role of the scene better. by babyxiao
	to make yourself seem nervous or uncomfortable by Red-Onyx
	To feel of humiliation or embarrassment by xxhelloxx84
	to squiggle, twist about, wiggle out of something by look_closer
	To.. twist and turn..? by Azita
	twist by anna1
	writhe by myyyyyr

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