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hinkyadjective slangnot feeling sure about the truth, wisdom, or trustworthiness of someone or somethingthe cop was feeling hinky about the whole situation and was starting to think that it was a setup distrustful, doubtful, dubious, mistrustful, skeptical, suspicious, trustless, uncertain, unconvinced, undecided, unsettled, unsure ambivalent, conflicted, equivocaldiffident, insecurehalting, hesitant, indecisive, irresolute, vacillating, wavering on the fence certain, convinced, positive, sure assured, confident, sanguine, self-assureddecisive, determined, resolute feeling or showing uncomfortable feelings of uncertaintyafter noticing that the driver seemed hinky, the border guard demanded that he submit to an inspection of his vehicle aflutter, antsy, anxious, atwitter, dithery, edgy, goosey, het up, hung up, ill at ease, insecure, jittery, jumpy, nervous, nervy, perturbed, queasy(also queazy), tense, troubled, uneasy, unquiet, upset, uptight, worried aggrieved, bothered, concerned, disquieted, distraught, distressed, disturbed, freaked, freaked-out, shook-upapprehensive, foreboding, hesitant, misgivingfretful, fretting, stewing, vexedqualmish, qualmyflustered, twittered, undone, unnerved, unstrungobsessed, preoccupied, restlessfidgety, flighty, fluttery, high-strung, hypertense, skittish, spooky keyed up, on edge, on pins and needles, on tenterhooks calm, collected, cool, easy, happy-go-lucky, nerveless, relaxed confident, self-assured, self-confident, surecontrolled, self-controlled in 1956 |