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- adjective
superlative form oftwitchy : mosttwitchy .
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Examples
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FNL's nod almost makes up for the exclusion of FX's finest series, Justified — although it scored major nods for its key actors, including star Timothy Olyphant, and in supporting categories, supreme scene stealers Margo Martindale and Walton Goggins, with Jeremy Davies getting a guest actor bid as Margo's twitchiest son.
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It doesn't even make good business sense because, once again, the short-term fears of the twitchiest suits might be salved -- Leno's deadly show at 10pm is six feet under and Conan's underperforming stint on The Tonight Show is cut short -- but the chilling effect that this will have not only on audiences but on any young talent from which you might hope to cultivate loyalty is utterly decimated.
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Or would he have done that "Thanks, but I'm fine" thing that even the twitchiest young guys use when professors or friends say, "You seem unhappy, and I'm worried about you"?
Grand Rounds, and VTech Despite Myself Susan Palwick 2007
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Or would he have done that "Thanks, but I'm fine" thing that even the twitchiest young guys use when professors or friends say, "You seem unhappy, and I'm worried about you"?
Archive 2007-04-01 Susan Palwick 2007
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He's actually the twitchiest of our cats, but since I'm an Official Food Source TM, he puts up with things from me he wouldn't tolerate from strangers.
Upswing Susan Palwick 2007
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A few weeks of Brian Williams' droning and buzzing will soon enough fill us with a poignant nostalgia for Dan Rather at his twitchiest.
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The 'IRM' songs bore the obvious stamp of Beck and on 'Master's Hand,' which Gainsbourg dedicated to her collaborator, strummed violin strings and clitter-clatter cowbell coalesced into a three-minute percussive oddity, one of the night's twitchiest and best songs.
Spinner 2010
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'They were twitchiest at night, when they feared a rescue attempt.
Home | Mail Online 2009
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"so i ask you which do you think based on recent questions and answers is the one who might have the twitchiest trigger finger?"
ModerateVoters.org 2008
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