fretful

IPA: frˈɛtfʌɫ

Examples of "fretful" in Sentences

"Who's there!" called a fretful voice from inside.
But “being in a busy state” also suggested being worried or fretful.
I was only -- a kind of fretful porcupine -- standing up for my side. "
This shewed a kind of fretful impatience; nor was it to be wondered at, considering our disagreeable ride.
This flicwcd a kind of fretful impatience; nor was it to be wondered at, confidcring our difagree - able ride.
True, Custer's connection to impotence may have been largely metaphorical, but to a certain fretful portion of the populace it struck home.
But then, this might have been an ideal passion, as has happened to many of us, and we have never been less enamoured than when in the immediate presence of its object: but in this instance it was very different, creating a kind of fretful happiness quite intolerable.
We will not say that our dear little Mary rose in this condition next morning, -- for, although she had the headache, she had one of those natures in which, somehow or other, the combative element seems to be left out, so that no one ever knew her to speak a fretful word.