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Meanings of fretfulness in English

Portuguese
irritabilidade
Catalan
còlera
Spanish
cólera

An irritable petulant feeling.

      irritabilidade
      Usage of fretfulness in English
      1
      Her weak fretfulness depressed all the vitalities near her; only Hester resisted.
      The Case of Richard Meynell
      2
      She watched critically to see whether the cigar-light was puffed in fretfulness.
      Vittoria — Volume 6
      3
      I think many artists operate from this pit of worry and fretfulness.
      The Guardian
      4
      There is not a line on it of care or of fretfulness.
      Hyacinth
      5
      He had slipped into his more familiar suit of fretfulness and timidity.
      Dark rivers of the heart
      6
      The first feeling it occasioned was an additional emotion of impatience and fretfulness.
      Rollo at Play; Or, Safe Amusements
      7
      The wound is painful, and it naturally awakens fretfulness and resentment.
      Sunny Memories Of Foreign Lands, Volume 1
      8
      But philosophy in Marcus Aurelius would eventually triumph over passing fretfulness.
      The Angel and the Author, and Others
      9
      Once or twice the Scotchman, worried by his fretfulness, had ordered him away.
      Spanish Doubloons
      10
      Thrush is evidenced by fretfulness or crying on attempting to nurse.
      The Mother and Her Child
      11
      He moved restlessly and impatiently on his chair, and said, with some fretfulness:-
      The Old Castle and Other Stories
      12
      Throughout the severe dispensation Gerald Bereford manifested no irritation, no fretfulness, no complaining.
      Lady Rosamond's Secret: A Romance of Fredericton
      13
      But her wrath passed, or remained only as a graceful fretfulness.
      The Longest Journey
      14
      Not work, but worry, fretfulness, friction,-theseare our foes in America.
      Cheerfulness as a Life Power
      15
      The declaration was made in a tone of childish fretfulness.
      The Letter of the Contract
      16
      Almost with the first suspicion of fretfulness or pain the mother has heard it.
      The Delicious Vice
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      Translations for fretfulness
      Portuguese
      irritabilidade
      Fretfulness through the time
      Fretfulness across language varieties
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