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handwringing
[hand-ring-ing]
noun
a physical expression of concern, distress, or guilt.
the nervous grasping or squeezing of the hands as a sign of these feelings.
Other 51Թ Forms
- handwringer noun
Example Sentences
All these iterations of female friendship received their fair share of hatred and handwringing in the popular culture of their time.
"He didn't let US government clucking and handwringing stop him," says Robert Carlin.
The handwringing at players fighting after the Ohio State and Michigan game, among others, ignores the inherent violence of the sport.
As Damascus echoes with celebratory gunfire at Assad's downfall, most Syrians won't share the American handwringing.
With all the lugubrious handwringing over Biden and the Democrats saying Trump is a threat to democracy, nobody seems to care that his instinct in that horrible moment was to incite more violence.
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