fretful

• Mrs. Anning was fretful, and wanted to know what was going on. —  Out of the Past - Patricia Wentworth - Miss Silver 23: 1953
• Maigret was fretful, as always when he felt that something was amiss with the case he was working on. —  Maigret's Boyhood Friend - Georges Simenon - 97
• She becomes fretful, and yet full of remorse for yielding to her peevishness; she seeks for sympathy, without being able to give reasons for needing it; she annoys those around her by groundless fears, and is angered when they show their annoyance. —  The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother
• And yet is it not the case that the body of attorneys is supposed to be the most roguish body in existence The old man seemed now to be a little fretful, and said something more about his sorrow at their having been sent into that room We are so crowded," he said, "that we hardly know how to stir ourselves Miss Mackenzie said it did not signify in the least. —  Miss Mackenzie
• The fretful, the ill-tempered, the selfish, the exacting, must, somewhere and some way, learn their lesson and grow toward the light; but their influence should not be allowed to poison the spiritual atmosphere. —  The Life Radiant

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