squirm 的 2 个定义
- to wriggle or writhe.
- to feel or display discomfort or distress, as from reproof, embarrassment, pain, etc.: He squirmed under the judge's questioning.
- the act of squirming; a squirming or wriggling movement.
squirm 近义词
wiggle, fidget
更多squirm例句
- I started to squirm in my chair and Jimbo put his hand back on my shoulder to settle me down.
- Even with several judges on her payroll, Mandelbaum was not able to squirm out of the charges.
- His relationship with ex-wife Effi Barry is squirm-inducing.
- The negotiator added that she told him she “liked to watch them squirm around after they had been shot.”
- Moments like these could cause ticket-buyers to squirm or, perhaps, reflect on their own capacity to overlook and forgive.
- He was losing hold of himself, and roaring like a bull and flinging out taunts that made 'em squirm.
- She sat down to compose a letter which should make Mr. Robert Ross, alias wretch, squirm in agony.
- I was afraid of my life he would clutch at my skirts as he fell or squirm up against me after he was down.
- Whereupon Andy smoked relishfully and in silence, and from the tail of his eye watched his audience squirm with impatience.
- He tried to withdraw the key, but now Macklin began to squirm worse than ever, and he had hard work to master the fellow.