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What does handwringing mean?

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Noun
  1. Alternative form of hand wringing
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Right now, the argument that the war will have unforeseen and disastrous consequences may sound like handwringing, but it is doubtless true.
As a card carrying neocon of the PNAC persuasion, he thinks that all this namby-pamby handwringing about poverty is rubbish.
There has been much pious handwringing from the Democrats about the fate of poor Valerie Plame, but we have to put this into non-partisan perspective.
The handwringing in the press is so severe you can hear the bird-bones of these desiccated scribes cracking as they conjur up the next Horrible Scenario.
Though I don't recall the details, I remember a similar wave of handwringing in the 80s about violent movies and television.
You make a good point, Kitty, and that's what the administration is saying, that we've heard this before, this naysaying, this handwringing.

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