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Fried potatoes are one of mankind’s greatest inventions, but deep-frying at home can be as fussy and fretful as clipping a frantic cat’s claws.
HOW TO MAKE CRISPY AIR-FRYER FRIES WITH NO FUSS AND VERY LITTLE MUSSDANIELA GALARZAJUNE 17, 2021WASHINGTON POSTOccasionally he turned his head to watch with keen eyes the fretful movements of a fly hovering above the water.
UNCANNY TALESVARIOUSBeardsley was watching Arnold's fingers; there was something aimless and fretful as they pushed among the code-sealed tapes.
WE'RE FRIENDS, NOWHENRY HASSE“I fear there is an element of the morbid, in all this fretful revolt against the old-established destiny of our sex,” she said.
THE DAUGHTERS OF DANAUSMONA CAIRDMrs. Tynan's face flushed with sudden irritation and that fretful look came to her eyes which accompanies a lack of comprehension.
YOU NEVER KNOW YOUR LUCK, COMPLETEGILBERT PARKERSo that night his head was hot, and he was fretful; and in the morning he would not eat, and apparently had a fever.
LOVE'S PILGRIMAGEUPTON SINCLAIRA sickly, faded, fretful-looking person, nearly ten years his senior!
A CHARMING FELLOW, VOLUME II (OF 3)FRANCES ELEANOR TROLLOPEThey lifted their eyes a moment from the ground, and cast a fretful look at the great, tranquil luminary.
IT IS NEVER TOO LATE TO MENDCHARLES READEThe child had been unusually fretful, and had kept her awake.
THAT LASS O' LOWRIE'SFRANCES HODGSON BURNETTSarcastically applied to people who may be peevish or fretful through ill health.
THE PROVERBS OF SCOTLANDALEXANDER HISLOPWORDS RELATED TO FRETFUL
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- acid
- acrid
- acrimonious
- awkward
- bad-tempered
- blunt
- brusque
- captious
- choleric
- chuffy
- churlish
- crabbed
- cranky
- cross
- crotchety
- crusty
- cynical
- difficult
- dour
- fretful
- gloomy
- glum
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- harsh
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- irascible
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- prickly
- saturnine
- snappish
- sour
- splenetic
- sulky
- sullen
- surly
- tart
- testy
- tough
- trying
- unsociable
- acid
- acrid
- acrimonious
- awkward
- bad-tempered
- blunt
- brusque
- captious
- choleric
- churlish
- cranky
- cross
- crotchety
- crusty
- cynical
- difficult
- dour
- fretful
- gloomy
- glum
- grouchy
- harsh
- huffy
- ill-humored
- ill-tempered
- irascible
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- misanthropic
- morose
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- petulant
- prickly
- saturnine
- snappish
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- sour
- splenetic
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- tart
- testy
- tough
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- faultfinding
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- out of humor
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- put out
- querulous
- quick-tempered
- short
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- splenetic
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- tetchy
- touchy
- vexed
- waspish
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