fretful

Oliver is used to hospitals, but is fretful, and wriggles as the research nurse slowly injects the treatment, about a cup full, into a catheter in his chest.

He was a fretful perfectionist who would endlessly rehearse; Anne was naturally funny; she flowed.

In a twitch, a head tilt or a whine, Indy communicates his emotions: curious, lonely, contented, confused, fretful, desperate or petrified.

But there is no doubting this is a fretful moment, adversaries and conflicts around the world, deep seated problems at home.

With their heavy eyebrows and square jaws, they look like a fretful phalanx of Martin Scorseses reluctantly conceding that the movie is pretty fun.