Sentence example with the word 'fretfulness'

fretfulness

anxiety, chafing, eagerness, fretting, impatience, impetuousness, peevishness, petulance, querulousness, restiveness, shrewishness, sweat, uneasiness, unquietness

Definition n. an irritable petulant feeling

Last update: September 22, 2015


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The Five Hindrances are (1) Hankering after worldly advantages, (2) The corruption arising out of the wish to injure, (3) Torpor of mind, (4) Fretfulness and worry, (5) Wavering of mind.'" When these five hindrances have been cut away from within him, he looks upon himself as freed from debt, rid of disease, out of jail, a free man and secure.   [Please select]

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Certainly there was no abatement in her fretfulness and discontent.   [Please select]

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Tempers grow wild and unruly, sleep disappears, fretfulness and irritability take its place.   [Please select]

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Fretfulness and negativism with all children whose management is at fault come in waves and cycles.   [Please select]

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His hope was gratified, not completely, but enough to remove grounds for lover's fretfulness.   [Please select]

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It was the last self-exhausting effort of my fretfulness, for after that I slept soundly.   [Please select]

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This she accomplished without hurry of spirit, fretfulness, or misgiving.   [Please select]

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When he spoke his voice carried the old nervous fretfulness.   [Please select]

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The slight touch of joy and animation that had come into her face fled, leaving only a dispirited fretfulness that was plainly very much at home there.   [Please select]

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I was dreading it, for I knew from past experience with other children what to expect: fretfulness and tears, if nothing worse.   [Please select]

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