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Meanings of uptight in English
Being in a tense state.
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Examples for "edgy"
Examples for "edgy"
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Famous for healthy and edgy creations, everything you order will be good.
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Still, some question whether MTV programing is too edgy for mainstream marketers.
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But for young hipsters those three words are edgy, edgy and edgy.
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Feeling edgy, like a caged animal, he paced around the main room.
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They were distracted and edgy, and both needed a few days off.
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Britain leads NATO forces in the restive Helmand province in southern Afghanistan.
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In the last year, militants have repeatedly attacked prisons in restive areas.
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The crowd is restive in the presence of the impulses of paladins.
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By the time they turned to history, Young Griff was growing restive.
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This was a particularly sensitive investigation, and the media were becoming restive.
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Scout24's market debut is being scrutinized by investors amid jittery equities markets.
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U.S. stocks extended their losses as the news compounded already jittery markets.
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The repeated standoffs made decision-makers jittery and prepared Europeans psychologically for war.
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Denz began his sixth day with 50 feet of jittery free climbing.
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Even at a greater distance some moose may become jittery, staff said.
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Hope that target's stationary: Horizontal tracking was jumpy in high-level stabilization mode.
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But he often seemed jumpy and lacking in confidence with the Yankees.
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Like I say, it's all a game, but they're pretty jumpy today.
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Well, when it came to being jumpy, he had company-plentyof it.
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Just the thought of him made her all jumpy and nervous inside.
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However, some of us can express this view freely; others are nervy.
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The whole situation is just a little bit nervy at the minute.
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The night time is perhaps a little more nervy than the day.
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I get nervy when I stand up on something, even a chair.
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Chewing-Gum follows the brilliant Ecoute Chérie, and entrenches her nervy robot-funk style.
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There was electricity in the air which acted on her overstrung nerves.
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It was hysterical-theoutcome of an overstrung, highly excitable, and nervous temperament.
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My nerves were overstrung, and I lit a cigar to steady them.
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Possibly his nerves were overstrung with what he had been going through.
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The scraping sound which he made thereby grated on Chauvelin's overstrung nerves.
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In the golden light and pringling air he felt excitable and high-strung.
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Cold, of course, as Germans are, and rather high-strung, but incredibly pretty.
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We've always known that Katie was the most high-strung of the children.
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The king of empaths, Alvin was high-strung and utterly devoted to Elena.
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There she meets 28-year-old Charlie, an assistant to a high-strung venture capitalist.
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The boy being highly strung, a little criticism went a long way.
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Those girls are highly organised, highly sensitive; their nerves are highly strung.
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Your nerves are too highly strung, and nerves play us strange tricks.
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Lister saw he tried to be cool, but thought him highly strung.
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He was as highly strung as a racehorse at the gate.
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MSF wants the reorganisation held in suspense until all problems are resolved.
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Everybody was in suspense, in expectation of what the Naua might say.
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The inexorable one at the desk did not keep him in suspense.
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The whole forest seemed to be on the alert-astirand in suspense.
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Anyone in suspense over the outcome probably never has seen a movie.
Usage of uptight in English
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He said, She's so uptight and straitlaced-howcould she possibly understand you?
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But when companies or networks do get letters, they get very uptight.
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The first referred to him as cold, rigid, remote, finicky, and uptight.
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Charlie Goldschmidt is that kind of president -not uptight at all.
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To feel like myself and that maybe I wouldn't feel so uptight.
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I suppose in these memories I see too my uptight, small-minded outlook.
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A man was waiting by the door, smoking and looking very uptight.
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Her uptight attitude would do her in and the shit would fly.
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The people who act so uptight, who act like it's so evil?
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Be Silly Together Even the most uptight people enjoy a good laugh.
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My mom and dad get so uptight about those types of conversations.
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Still, think foppish, secretive, uptight assholes and you end up with .
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It was very easy to say, 'Yes.' Q: You play the uptight analyst.
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A moment ago you were getting uptight about your boyfriend's security.
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He got super uptight about the sex question and refused to answer it.
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Do you think this is the end of uptight British society?
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Uptight across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Less common