Squirm \Squirm\ (skw[~e]rm), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Squirmed} (skw[~e]rmd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Squirming}.] [Cf. {Swarm} to climb a tree.] To twist about briskly with contortions like an eel or a worm; to wriggle; to writhe.
Broad generalizations of this kind make many investors squirm. Any time people start believing grandiose claims about the supposed significance of what the market is doing, veterans of the game start to suspect that stocks are ripe for a fall.
People didn't even squirm in their seats.
Mrs. Chamorro may be guilty of demagogy, but she at least understands what really makes the anti-Contra Democrats squirm: the fact that they might have to take responsibility for what happens in Central America if the Contras are defeated.
In a book, they would break a subject down into one component and then another." Some of the videotapes, Fidler said, make medical students squirm.
Most Londoners squirm when they encounter a street beggar in the centre of the city.
Today, he is occupied with Anglo-American policy towards Bosnia. I asked him whether Britain had anything any more to teach the US - a question to make a diplomat squirm.
That is why UK profitability and investment remain low by international standards. British industrialists and trade unionists pay themselves too much, a reality they squirm to avoid.