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fretfully

ADVERB
  1. in a fretful manner
    fretfully, the baby tossed in his crib

How To Use fretfully In A Sentence

  • Mrs. Martin was out of bed, calling fretfully into the passage for Dilman. A Breath of Snow and Ashes
  • He'll be hamesick ere a twelvemonth, laird," said the dominie; and the laird answered fretfully, "A twelvemonth is a big slice o 'life to fling awa in far countries. Scottish sketches
  • She would pace through the house she had lived in most of her life crying fretfully that she wanted to go home.
  • If it don't rain soon," she called fretfully, "I guess you'll find yourselves alone an 'forsaken, like pelicans in the wilderness. Tiverton Tales
  • Being susceptible to superstition and a ponderer on omens, Ralph Emsden often thought fretfully afterward on the double meaning of these words, and sought to displace them in their possible evil influence on his future by some assurance more cheerful and confident. The Frontiersmen
  • She flipped down the veil on her mask, looking fretfully at the figure ahead of her.
  • At that moment Banford’s voice was heard calling fretfully, crossly from upstairs. The Fox
  • I call fretfully as my baby birds, sunblocked and behatted flit off down the street. Erika Schickel: Baby Steps
  • While I don't doubt that every effort will be made by profit-driven corporations to develop ways to produce goods even if rare minerals are fully depleted, the gulf between now and a future where minerals can be safely reclaimed and reused is fretfully wide. Boing Boing
  • He spent his days staring at a mindless stream of numbers running down his computer screen and his nights tossing fretfully in the guest bed. Curb Appeal
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