0 to move from side to side in an awkward way, sometimes because of nervousness, embarrassment, or pain: --
1 a side to side, awkward movement, sometimes made because of nervousness, embarrassment, or pain: --
2 to make twisting movements with the body, esp. because of embarrassment, pain, or excitement: --
We cannot throw off our convictions like a snake throws off its skin as it struggles and squirms its way to a new life.
They just do not know what way to squirm.
Even large secondary schools are squirming under the pressure caused by the increase in training weeks introduced by circulars 9/92 and 14/93.
Now they are sitting there squirming and ashamed of themselves because it is being pointed out to them.
They squirm about subsidies to council house dwellers, the under-privileged, and then smile when it is proposed to give £130 million towards manufacturers and industrialists.
Others of a more negative turn of mind simply squirmed at the idea of so significant an extension of parental choice of school.
I have already alluded to the objectionable word "artistes," a word which makes every serious artist squirm.
However much they may wriggle and squirm, it is small businesses and the self-employed who will pay that extra money.
