handwringer

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hand·wring·ing

or hand wringing  (hănd′rĭng′ĭng)
n.
1. Clasping and squeezing of the hands, often in distress.
2. An excessive expression of distress: handwringing by some experts over the state of the economy.

hand′wring′er, hand wringer n.
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handwringer

(ˈhændˌrɪŋə)
n
a person who wrings the hands often as a display of worry or upset
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(2) He was no handwringer, and believed in getting to the point.
Both models posit an active public administrator, not the passive handwringer sometimes depicted by those who criticize or even caricature the bureaucracy.
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unless the handwringers are prepared to cry over London and Coventry and other British cities which came under savage attack night after night from German bombers.