Nervous, impatient or restless

Usage examples of twitchy.

He hurried us off the bridge and back to the debarkation hatch, then through and out, flanked by an honour guard of two methed-up thugs even younger and twitchier than he was.

A wiry, twitchy little man, dressed in a tight business suit, plopped down in the seat next to her.

When she looked back down, the coffee had wound its way to the twitchy man sitting next to her.

In the cold rain he was a twitchy mess, anger and agony seething in his chest.

Senior staff seemed twitchy as Oscar went through the offices and corridors, but then they were in the middle of organizing a battle to defend human worlds against forty-eight alien armadas.

Wurmlinger was twitchy because he was used to dissecting insects, not humans.

After a twitchy pause, he pulled free and returned his attention to Remo and Chiun.

So I burst into the room, ran to the shotgun, snatched it off the floor, grimaced at the lethal feel of it, warned myself that I was too young for adult diapers, and stood by the window, quickly examining it in the twitchy dazzle of a series of lightning bolts.

Nobody with three lifetimes behind them was as twitchy as Tara seemed to be.

I thought at the time the pilot miscalculated his rate of rise or something, or the orbitals were twitchy from the fireworks.

Al the Barb seemed mighty twitchy, but if memory served her right, his manic edge was as much shuck as his cowboy routine.

Cordelia thought of carnivores, cliffs, deep pools, Barrayaran patrols with twitchy trigger fingers.

Escobar: cold black eyes, twitchy, filled with nervous energy, pacing as they waited.

JANUARY THE HOSPITAL GAVE us BACK A NEW VERSION OF Ma: a smiling, twitchy woman with plucked eyebrows.

Maybe Sutcliffe was getting twitchy, and had overreacted when Patrick started nosing around.