Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for fiddle-footed
Adjective
  • Groups of excitable teenage boys waited their turn to play EA FC on a bank of massive flat screen TVs.
    James Montague, New York Times, 18 May 2025
  • Wisner was an excitable workaholic, like a squirrel pointlessly leaping in all directions.
    Bruce Fein, Baltimore Sun, 15 May 2025
Adjective
  • The price of gold tends to move when markets get nervous – and so does the gold.
    Ken Roberts, Forbes.com, 24 May 2025
  • It should also be noted that Demings is more than a little nervous right now about making any public promises about helping to finance a baseball stadium.
    Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 22 May 2025
Adjective
  • Stage 1: In this stage, inflammation, as well as loose or unstable joints, is present.
    Isabel Casimiro, Verywell Health, 22 May 2025
  • Unfortunately, modeling variations on this orbit through time indicated that 98 percent of them were unstable within 50 million years.
    John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 22 May 2025
Adjective
  • Other big miners, including archrivals BHP, Anglo American and Glencore, have steered clear of lithium, am important metal in batteries, but one which is also abundantly available puts suffers from extremely volatile pricing.
    Tim Treadgold, Forbes.com, 23 May 2025
  • Unlike volatile digital assets like bitcoin, the value of stablecoins is tied to a real-world asset like fiat currencies or commodities like gold.
    Dylan Butts, CNBC, 22 May 2025
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“Fiddle-footed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fiddle-footed. Accessed 2 Jun. 2025.

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