What is "insecure"

Usage examples of "insecure".

The rads might be imprisoned on the Manitou, but Maia doubted Renna would be kept anywhere so insecure.

Of course, the insecure aspects of many abusers are well concealed within the arrogance.

I had been part of enough fuckups where friends had died because of insecure information.

No women had been allowed to accompany their husbands to America, but there were over a hundred men, confused and insecure, assigned to a fort they did not understand for duties which had not been explained.

Fortunately for the eavesdroppers, the Japanese negotiators frequently bypassed secure, encrypted phones because insecure hotel telephones were more readily available and easier to use.

But after one day on the road, carnies are edgy and insecure, for although the romance of the road belongs to the Gypsy spirit, the road itself is the work and the property of straight society, and rovers can go only where society has provided passage.

In attendance, balanced on my insecure furniture, were ' Shady" Nooks, a silver haired and suntanned person who also sported a large gold wristwatch, and his articled clerk, Miss Stebbings, a nice-looking girl fresh from law school, who had clearly no idea what area of the law she had got into.

Since she'd had four new looks in as many weeks, Dara had told Caitlyn in privacy that she assumed her new client was either a) incredibly lonely, or b) incredibly insecure.

They thought that to be masculine, they had to be copulative dynamos, and it was largely to prop up their insecure masculinity that they resorted to sexual display, whereas, in fact, it was their relatively mild interest in actual physical contact that was largely the source of that insecurity.

Let others more insecure than she flaunt their desktops, laptops, and palmtops: Edwina Godz's office looked like nothing more than the plush, snug, and inviting parlor of a Victorian mansion.

The sea looked forbidding, rubbed and abrased by the wind into a treacherous, insecure surface.

Even 10 years or more after the divorce, Wallerstein and Blakeslee (1989) estimated that 41% of the children of divorce in their study were still doing poorly --underachieving, tense, insecure, self-critical, and/or angry.

She's really just a frightened, insecure little girl underneath that mountain of adipose tissue.

But despite her sophisticated life­style and smart back-chat Tessa was insecure.

But otherwise should keep their big fat insecure libber mouths shut because they were probably bull dykes at heart and were out to steal men's jobs.