Thesaurus / fidgety
EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
When the short-skirted, gossamer clad nymphs made their appearance on the stage they became restless and fidgety.
People began to get fidgety, and started petitioning their representatives in government to Do Something.
OLD FRIENDS ARE THE BESTJACK SHARKEY
I was so fidgety that time I sent on Camilla Harper's letter to you, though it wasn't anything like as important.'
ROBIN REDBREASTMARY LOUISA MOLESWORTH
Kulman became anxious and fidgety, especially when, looking down the stairs, he saw some Turks in the hall.
EASTERN NIGHTS - AND FLIGHTSALAN BOTT
Then, too, there was not so much likelihood of his getting the clothes off, should he get restless or fidgety.
There were ever so many tableaux after that—Captain Cavendish, impatient and fidgety, wondered if they would ever end.
A CHANGED HEARTMAY AGNES FLEMING
But the good lady's habitual complacency was plainly in abeyance, her customary volubility replaced by a fidgety reserve.
THE LIEUTENANT-GOVERNORGUY WETMORE CARRYL
I wish I were not an anxious, fidgety wretch, and could sit down content with dirt and disorder.
GEORGE ELIOT'S LIFE, VOL. II (OF 3)GEORGE ELIOT
Men about home all day are fidgety, grumpy, and interfering—altogether objectionable, in short.
HOW TO BE HAPPY THOUGH MARRIEDE. J. HARDY.
At the door of my lodgings I was confronted by Banks, red with indignation and fidgety from uneasiness.
RICHARD CARVEL, COMPLETEWINSTON CHURCHILL
WORDS RELATED TO FIDGETY
- afraid
- agitated
- annoyed
- apprehensive
- basket case
- bothered
- concerned
- distressed
- disturbed
- edgy
- excitable
- fidgety
- fitful
- flustered
- fussy
- hesitant
- high-strung
- hysterical
- irritable
- jittery
- jumpy
- nervy
- neurotic
- on edge
- overwrought
- querulous
- restive
- ruffled
- sensitive
- shaky
- shrinking
- shy
- skittish
- snappish
- solicitous
- spooked
- taut
- tense
- timid
- timorous
- troubled
- twitchy
- uneasy
- unrestful
- unstrung
- upset
- uptight
- volatile
- weak
- wired
- worried
- afraid
- agitated
- annoyed
- apprehensive
- basket case
- bothered
- concerned
- distressed
- disturbed
- edgy
- excitable
- fidgety
- fitful
- flustered
- fussy
- hesitant
- high-strung
- hysterical
- irritable
- jittery
- jumpy
- nervy
- neurotic
- on edge
- overwrought
- querulous
- restive
- ruffled
- sensitive
- shaky
- shrinking
- shy
- skittish
- snappish
- solicitous
- spooked
- taut
- tense
- timid
- timorous
- troubled
- twitchy
- uneasy
- unrestful
- unstrung
- upset
- uptight
- volatile
- weak
- wired
- worried
- active
- agitated
- antsy
- anxious
- bundle of nerves
- bustling
- changeable
- disturbed
- edgy
- fidgeting
- fidgety
- fitful
- footloose
- fretful
- hurried
- ill at ease
- inconstant
- intermittent
- irresolute
- itchy
- jumpy
- nervous
- nomadic
- on edge
- perturbed
- restive
- roving
- sleepless
- spasmodic
- strung out
- tossing and turning
- transient
- troubled
- turbulent
- uneasy
- unpeaceful
- unquiet
- unrestful
- unruly
- unsettled
- unstable
- unsteady
- wandering
- worried
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