Sentence example with the word 'fretful'

fretful

abrupt, carping, critical, fluttering, howling, irascible, on edge, resentful, squirming, unpatient, whining

Definition adj. nervous and unable to relax

Last update: August 23, 2017


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Because of fever the baby has been fretful the wholedayi..   [adjective]

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This shewed a kind of fretful impatience; nor was it to be wondered at, considering our disagreeable ride.   [adjective]

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Elizabeth Gurley Flynn describes how, as a young and inexperienced mother, she did not know what to do with her fretful baby.   [adverb]

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For power, you know, is a fretful thing, and hath its wings always spread for flight.   [adjective]

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Once Ma'ame Pelagie arose to mix a drink of orange-flower water, which she gave to her sister, as she would have offered it to a nervous, fretful child.'   [adjective]

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Even Richard's friends grew fretful: Champagne tossing his head, muttering curses to himself, Gaston of BĂ©arn pale and serious, chewing his beard.   [adjective]

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Prince John slipped through the curtains, and at that moment Richard heard a little fretful cry within, not the cry of mortal lady.   [adjective]

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As for her, Richard believed her melancholy mad; he himself grew fretful, irritable, most quarrelsome.   [adjective]

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Some sense of the grimly-ludicrous moved me to a fretful laugh, as I replied, "I have looked over it."   [adjective]

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She is never fretful or irritable, and I have never seen her impatient with her playmates because they failed to understand her.   [Please select]

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"I don't see any joke," said Prickly Porky, and his voice was very fretful.   [Please select]

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