fidgety
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Watching them interviewed side by side, Sid soft-spoken and rambling, Marty fidgety and anxious to get to the point, their dynamic is abundantly clear.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2026
"You have to know him. He's fidgety to begin with," Payton said.
From Barron's • Jan. 27, 2026
Johnny Scott, 26, from Hornchurch, east London, appeared "fidgety and dazed" after he drove his VW Polo into the south centre gates on 9 March, Westminster Magistrates' Court heard.
From BBC • Jan. 16, 2025
This year, impatient as ever for winter to end, I decided to skip my usual routine of fidgety calendar watching and see if I couldn’t do something to hasten spring’s arrival.
From New York Times • Mar. 16, 2024
He figured he would leave the house just at midnight, but he got so fidgety that he couldn’t wait that long, and around eleven-thirty he crept downstairs.
From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt
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