fretful

How To Use fretful In A Sentence

• Not the great sorrows of life, or its great sacrifices, but fretfulness, ignoble worries, sordid cares, are that which draw lines upon a woman's face and harshen her features. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance
• They may refuse their feeds and become fretful with a shrill cry when handled.
• The lady watched fretfully as the men came closer to hitting Mack with their bullets and ran much faster than before as their rage intensified.
• Personal relations have become restless, fretful, often disturbed by an itch for change and variety.
• Who can untangle this fretful cat 's cradle? Times, Sunday Times
• Most of Saturday I was distracted and fretful, wracking my brains about what I could do when I would be forced to disappear from Rob's life for an entire month.
• Conventional wisdom says that a defendant should look engaged but not fretful, confident but not cocky.
• A good man may be in want, but then he quiets himself, and strives to make himself easy; but these people when they shall be hungry shall fret themselves, and when they have nothing to feed on their vexation shall prey upon their own spirits; for fretfulness is a sin that is its own punishment. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
• Lanegan's personal narrative, the euphoric highs and ravaged lows of the junkie, the fretful pining of the love incompetent and the poetic musings of the maverick outsider, are poignantly realised.
• a night of shallow fretful sleep