Word Finder - insecure

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Not secure.

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Not comfortable or confident in oneself or in certain situations.

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He's a nice guy and all, but seems to be rather insecure around other people.

She was feeling insecure, and for good reason.

This bridge was found insecure and replaced in 1884-1887.

Is she insecure, too?

After finding the right group of friends, Norah no longer felt insecure about her personality.

The bridge was insecure, so the city decided to close the area until it was repaired.

Most people wouldn't buy David Dean as an insecure guy.

She probably felt insecure even of her place in the family.

It is important that you are not insecure about your abilitieswhen taking a leadership position.

Richard, still insecure of his own position, welcomed his uncle, and early in the following year marked his favour by creating him duke of Aquitaine.

Hope decided to end her relationship with Nathan because his constant criticism made her feel insecure.

It left her feeling insecure.

Phyllis, however, was far more devious and insecure.

His love is real and totally unconditional I am a deeply, deeply insecure person.

The war between the Angevins and the Aragonese for the possession of Sicily was still in progress, and although the Aragonese were successful in Italy James's position in Spain became very insecure to internal troubles and French attacks.

The assassination of Philip delayed the blow, for it immediately made the base, Macedonia, insecure, and in such an enterprise, plunging into the vast territories of the Persian empire, a secure base was everything.

Avranches was from 511 to 1790 a bishop's see, held at the end of the 17th century by the scholar Daniel Huet; and its cathedral, destroyed as insecure in the time of the first French Revolution, was the finest in Normandy.

Embedded in the incurved margin of the rim which affords a very insecure foothold to insects, are a number of large glands excreting a sweet juice.

About a third of the population is composed of turbulent and lawless nomads who, when on the march between their winter and summer camping grounds, frequently render the roads insecure and occasionally plunder whole districts, leaving the inhabitants without means of subsistence.

At Chushul there is an iron chain-and-rope suspension bridge over the deepest part of the river, but it does not completely span the river, and it is too insecure for use.

In fact, since the Biblical evidence is admittedly incomplete, and to a certain extent insecure, the question of the identification of Azariah of Judah and Azriyau of Ja'udi may be reopened.

The inhabitants of Schokland were compelled to leave the island by order of the state in 1859, it being considered insecure from inundation.

Government lands were originally given free to applicants, but with a provisional and insecure title, which made it impossible for poor colonists to borrow money on their land.

A rider with an insecure seat is apt to be thrown by any unexpected movement the horse may make; and, without a firm seat, the acquirement of good hands is well-nigh hopeless, because, when the balance is once disturbed the insecure rider will have to depend on something else for the maintenance of his seat, and this generally takes the shape of "riding on the horse's mouth," a practice as cruel as it is ugly.

But the possession of Asia Minor was insecure to the Seljuks 2 An outline of the history of this branch of the Seljuks is given in Z.D.M.G.

Land was acquired and works were planned, but the development of possibilities of torpedo attack soon made it evident that the outer anchorage, as originally designed, would be insecure, and naval opinion became doubtful as to whether the base would be adequate.

The elected and still insecure German king at first remained Reforma= neutral; but in the autumn of 1525 the current of tion.

Even in the animal world, the highest stage of nature, he saw a failure to reach an independent and rational system of organization; and its feelings under the continuous violence and menaces of the environment he described as insecure, anxious and unhappy.

Tigranes's position, always insecure, soon became untenable, and it became necessary for Rome to intervene once more.

Further, Sweden's new boundaries were of the most insecure description, inasmuch as they were anti-ethnographical, parting asunder races which naturally went together, and behind which stood powerful neighbours of the same stock ready, at the first opportunity, to reunite them.

But this state of affairs was too insecure even for these rovers, and they would speedily have succumbed had not a refuge been found for them by the fortunate conquest of Jamaica in 1655 by the navy of the English Commonwealth.

Yet his position was even then insecure; the vicissitudes of the last thirty years had shaken the old prestige of the name of king, and a weaker and less capable man than Henry Tudor might have failed to retain the crown that he had won.

So long as the union was insecure, Margaret had tolerated the presence near the throne of "good men" from all three realms (the Rigsraad, or council of state, as these councillors now began to be called); but their influence was always insignificant.

He had restored the superstructure of the imperial monarchy, but he had likewise strengthened and legalized methods and institutions till then private and insecure, and these, passing from custom into law, undermined the foundations of the structure he had thought himself to be repairing.

The duke of Burgundy, however rich and powerful, was still the kings vassal; his wide but insecure authority, of too rapid growth and unpopular, lacked sovereign rights.

After a wandering and insecure life of some years in Italy, he received and accepted the invitation of the Cardinal Ippolyte d'Este to settle in Rome in 1559.

New wireless LANs are popping up very fast, and many of them are insecure ' rogue ' access points.

Chapter I of Part V creates insecure ' introductory tenancies ', which councils can give to new tenants.

It is natural that your child may feel insecure and jealous at the attention this unborn child is already receiving.

The bottom line is teens that harass others often do so because they feel insecure about themselves.

I just feel so insecure, and I keep comparing my body to the other girls.

Puberty can be a very insecure period for both boys and girls.

Thumb sucking offers security to a child, but this behavior does not imply that the child is insecure.

In contrast, some children with an insecure attachment want to be held, but they are not comfortable; they kick or push away.

They are insecure because they lack guidelines to direct their behavior.

Blanket-attached children appear to be neither more nor less maladjusted or insecure than other children.

Badly handled, the infant becomes insecure and learns "basic mistrust."

Children who have not yet developed sufficient coping mechanisms to deal with many normal childhood fears and problems may feel overwhelmed and insecure.

Children will display distinct attachment styles, which can be loosely defined as either secure or insecure.

Secure styles show a child consistently connected to the primary caregiver, with a firmly established sense of trust and a nurturing response; however, insecure styles of attachment have features of instability.

Insecure attachment develops when a primary care-giver does not consistently respond in ways that are warm, affectionate, loving, dependable, and sensitive to the infant's needs.