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- adverb In a
twitchy way.
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Examples
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The Burmese monks in a group portrait from the 1890s are as twitchily alive now as when Beato pressed the cable release.
Travels in Burma, Ghana And the American City Richard B. Woodward 2011
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Peering twitchily at MacBooks and pitch-shifting basslines with exaggerated movements, the three Magnetic Men give every impression of playing live while MC Sgt Pokes chats alongside them, like a pirate radio broadcast.
Tinchy Stryder; Magnetic Man – review Kitty Empire 2010
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With his irritatingly nasal voice and yet another twitchily mannered performance, Baruchel will remain, for many, an acquired taste.
'Sorcerer's Apprentice' movie with Nic Cage, Jay Baruchel: It's far from magical 2010
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The guy, called Lemming, smiled twitchily at Georgia, who looked away.
Georgia’s Kitchen Jenny Nelson 2010
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But even though Team O not so subtly holds the current media culture -- in all its hyperventilating, twitchily tweeting, ADD glory -- in minimum low regard, it's not best for politicians to act as media critics.
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“I am the herr doctor, of course,” the little black-and-white image said, smiling twitchily.
Jason Stoddard, Strange and Happy » Blog Archive » Eternal Franchise, 8.3 of 31.1 2009
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As it turned out, she wasn't a zombie either I'm sensing a trend here, and, indeed, once back in the tank, started swimming around happily enough, if a bit twitchily.
The Return of the Fish mariness 2004
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The Palestinians, especially in Gaza, are watching developments twitchily.
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One imagines the fire-dousers playing Texas Hold'em and glancing twitchily at the clock in the hope that there would be no fake sheikh or Ulrika Jonsson, no cry of "action stations!"
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One imagines the fire-dousers playing Texas Hold'em and glancing twitchily at the clock in the hope that there would be no fake sheikh or Ulrika Jonsson, no cry of "action stations!"
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