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Meanings of fretful in inglés
Sinónimos
Examples for "restless"
Examples for "restless"
1
The populace is restless in the provinces; it is not in Paris.
2
Similar rules also exist in Tibet, another restless area of Chinese control.
3
They are restless in the City of Dreadful Night; and small wonder.
4
The booms in particular were possessed of a restless and unstable spirit.
5
A mining-camp is a restless thing; its peoples live in the streets.
1
I've got food in the conference room, and Bangor is getting antsy.
2
Besides, duty calls: Scarecrow's getting kind of antsy over in the corner.
3
Ten minutes later I was sitting at my desk, frustrated and antsy.
4
They get antsy on long weekends, and holidays are hard for them.
5
That's why I'm so antsy about her delays in launching Operation Scylla.
1
RI: Windburn and itchy skin result from surface dryness of the skin.
2
All of these elements can result in itchy, flaky and irritated skin.
3
An itchy pressure at the back of my pelvis: distracting, annoying, omnipresent.
4
She blinked several times as if her eyes were really itchy now.
5
Even right now, I have an unusual, itchy rash on my ankles.
1
She hurried; she could tell Baldwin was fidgety, anxious to get moving.
2
Such an extraordinary turn caught the attention of even the fidgety Peter.
3
When I sit still for a couple of days, I get fidgety.
4
Then for an hour it was deadly dull, and I was fidgety.
5
It is easy to see how fidgety he is, and no wonder.
Usage of fretful in inglés
1
Only young William was fretful, wanting to join the remaining United men.
2
The girl in the bed turned a fretful face toward her mother:
3
I had lived in California for seven years but had become fretful.
4
He could hear the sweet, rather fretful voice calling from the shadows:
5
She does nothing but indulge in fretful regrets over her broken health.
6
I walked up and down one of the rooms, fretful and irresolute.
7
He therefore endured with fretful patience the insubordination of Pitt and Fox.
8
He says you are not strong; he says you are fretful, irritable.
9
His will became like an invalid who is fretful upon the pillows.
10
There's a fretful tone; and how excited you look, and feel too.
11
The gate, flapping-to behind them, sounded like a fretful and querulous complaint.
12
Mrs. Colwyn grew fretful under what she felt to be silent condemnation.
13
Her patience with the baby, who was very fretful, was quite wonderful.
14
A month went by, and old Mrs. Shimerda began to get fretful.
15
She was neither nervous nor fretful, nor oppressed with fancies and moods.
16
Then you will seldom feel cross and fretful, because things go wrong.
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Fretful through the time
Fretful across language varieties
South Africa
Common
United Kingdom
Less common
United States of America
Rare