fretful

How to use fretful in a sentence

I also felt a pang, watching Otto pull us out of our fretful dialogue.

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.

Occasionally he turned his head to watch with keen eyes the fretful movements of a fly hovering above the water.

Beardsley was watching Arnold's fingers; there was something aimless and fretful as they pushed among the code-sealed tapes.

“I fear there is an element of the morbid, in all this fretful revolt against the old-established destiny of our sex,” she said.

Mrs. Tynan's face flushed with sudden irritation and that fretful look came to her eyes which accompanies a lack of comprehension.

So that night his head was hot, and he was fretful; and in the morning he would not eat, and apparently had a fever.

A sickly, faded, fretful-looking person, nearly ten years his senior!

They lifted their eyes a moment from the ground, and cast a fretful look at the great, tranquil luminary.

The child had been unusually fretful, and had kept her awake.

THAT LASS O' LOWRIE'SFRANCES HODGSON BURNETT

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985