fidgeting
烦躁不安,躁动不安,躁动,坐立不安
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Definitions
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- : to move about restlessly, nervously, or impatiently.
- : to play with something in a restless or nervous way; fiddle: The boy kept fidgeting with the toy instead of paying attention.
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- : to cause to fidget; make uneasy: He was fidgeted by a hunch that the girl was going to cause trouble.
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- : Often fidg·ets. the condition or an instance of being nervously restless, uneasy, or impatient.
- : Also fidg·et·er. a person who fidgets.
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Examples
The formal study will involve a computerized fidget ball and carefully coded video observation of the participants.
He slouched in his chair, clutching a crumpled charcoal blazer in his arms, and kept fidgeting.
The video, which played on Peruvian television, shows a very nervous Van der Sloot chain smoking and fidgeting in his chair.
We know that thin people spend more of their days standing, walking, and even “fidgeting” than do overweight individuals.
He said he didn't want his family fidgeting him, and the surgeon said he would be all right in a few days.
To see a hostess fidgeting, constantly going in and out, argues ill for her tact in arranging the house for company.
They stood waiting near a lamp-post; he, fidgeting as usual, she, straight and still.
Althotas listened in silence, with no other token of impatience than fidgeting with a scalpel in his hands.
I fidgeted up and down the raft, abusing myself to myself, and Jim was fidgeting up and down past me.