English
Adjective
en-adj|writhi|er
- Characterized by or prone to writhe|writhing.
#*1743: w:Robert Blair (poet)|Robert Blair, The Grave
#*:Nor fly, nor insect, nor writhy snake, escape their deep research.
#*2003: Richard Rooke, Ready to Dance and Other Poems
#*:When we caught a writhy, stunted fish, wide-eyed, mouthing silence, which slipped out of our hands, we picked it up, threw it back to its mud-blind home.
#*2005: Toni Bentley, Sisters of Salome
#*:Maud's dances were termed �wiggly, writhy, squirmy��rendering them more reptilian than artistic in tone.
ru:writhy
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