Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for fiddle-footed
Adjective
  • Its participants are easily excitable and just as effortlessly aggrieved, their collective nervous system tied somewhat intrinsically to social media notifications.
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 17 Apr. 2025
  • And if Django’s Billy Crash tapped into Goggins’s ability to thrive with brutal spite, Mannix plays more to Goggins’s excitable energy and capacity for being clever (even when his character seems to be anything but).
    Daniel Dockery, Vulture, 6 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • At times brutal and always volatile, the album functions as a sort of electro-shock therapy applied from the shoulders down, layering hard beats, ambient whorls, and nervous acid ticks to trigger a state of full-body rapture.
    Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 18 Apr. 2025
  • At the same time, sellers might get nervous if deal activity slows down.
    James Nelson, Forbes.com, 18 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • But the reality is that everyone feels the heat when life is unstable—even therapists.
    Korin Miller, SELF, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Finally, the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act says that schools must enroll and educate students who are with unstable living situations, including migrants, without discrimination.
    Brian Boggs, The Conversation, 11 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Core inflation, which excludes more volatile energy, food, alcohol and tobacco prices, rose by 3.4% in the year to March, down slightly from 3.5% in February.
    Holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 16 Apr. 2025
  • In volatile markets, that can be the difference between burning capital and building advantage.
    Benjamin Laker, Forbes.com, 16 Apr. 2025
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“Fiddle-footed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fiddle-footed. Accessed 30 Apr. 2025.

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