worrywart

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However, if you're a smoking worrywart, and that seems unlikely if you continue to smoke, go ahead and make the test.

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  • After so many e-mails from me about debts, threats, wars and revolutions, you probably think I'm an incurable worrywart. —  Money and Markets: Free Investment Email Newsletter
  • However, if you're a smoking worrywart, and that seems unlikely if you continue to smoke, go ahead and make the test. —  Knox
  • That miserable worrywart John Howard frightened me into joining a private fund. —  Sydney Star Observer
  • So, the consensus of two professional Republican budgeteers and the nation's pre-eminent fiscal worrywart is that taxes will rise by between 4\% to 7\% of GDP over the next 10 to 20 years, translating (in today's dollars) into $550 billion to $1 trillion more in new annual taxes. —  Opinion Source: Delivering summaries of editorial and op-ed pieces from major papers by email.
  • Still the patronizing patriarch, Clive can't leave his wife but nonetheless makes Kate swear to give up flying ( "it's too dangerous"), leaving her alone to rot, waiting for his next visit, while he keeps up appearances with stick-in-the-mud worrywart wife Billie Burke. —  Bright Lights After Dark
 

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