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be edgy for
adjective
Nervous, apprehensive
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"2 Broke Girls" tends to be edgy for network TV.
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I think I was really trying to be edgier for the reasons that we're talking about: I wanted it to be for a lot of different groups.
Relations have been edgy for a while.
"She was edgy for her time and the portrait by her sister Cassandra depicts an intelligent, determined woman".
"We had a hurdle to overcome, and things could have been edgy for us," said the Rangers manager.
The relationship between the two leaders has been edgy for years over issues like Israel's settlements in the West Bank and ways to stop Iran's nuclear program.
The goalkeeper was edgy for much of the match and there will be questions about him and not just on the winner, however much his manager said he was not to be blamed.
You can tell by his smirk and his recognition that the set is going badly (he says at one point: "This is probably my last show") that he's being edgy for the sake of it.
Theatre is conducted in an atmosphere of near-boundless good faith, so that even when a show desperately tries to be edgy, audiences can experience it safe in the knowledge that it's being edgy for the best of all possible motives.
Johnson's sales pitch might've been "edgy" for a 76-year-old woman, but it was pretty tame to me..
One of the main criticisms against the Rose crushes are that straight-identified women are simply trying to be "edgy," as Madeleine Davies wrote for Jezebel.
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