fretful
Example Sentences
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As Queenie, navigating empty relationships and professional disappointments on a journey from self-sabotage to self-worth, Brown makes a whole person from a variety of attitudes — hopeful, hopeless, hungover, exuberant, fretful, thoughtful.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 3, 2024
Hoover and his aides became progressively more fretful about the settlement at Anacostia Flats, especially when its organizers began to talk about making it permanent.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 29, 2024
Communication failures ensue, as do the progressively more fretful faces and soundtrack music.
From New York Times • Jan. 18, 2024
The court heard the incidents left him "fretful" and "fearful" about his safety.
From BBC • Oct. 18, 2023
The cheerful and fretful noises of children being readied for bed drifted to us as we returned to the kitchen.
From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin
Vocabulary lists containing fretful
"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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"Sorry, Wrong Number" by Lucille Fletcher
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