0 past simple and past participle of wriggle
1 to twist your body, or move part of your body, with small, quick movements:
In the living state, they wriggled vigorously, making some forward (or backward) progression.
It is those who have changed—wriggled and squirmed from positionto position with nothing more than political opportunism in mind—whom one cannot respect.
I thought that he wriggled a good deal during the course of his remarks.
He has so far wriggled out of the expression "a big shake-out".
They wriggled like anything, changed direction suddenly, hurried backwards and forwards and concealed their retreat with a cloud of ink.
Perhaps while the regulatory structures were settling down in the early days some fish wriggled through the nets.
He wriggled and did not seem to wish to give the cases at all.
After all, we only wriggled through the last war.
