fretful


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Synonyms for fretful

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Synonyms for fretful

nervous and unable to relax

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habitually complaining

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Beijing [China], Aug.4 ( ANI ): The United States is entangled in domestic political in-fighting and its foreign policy strategies are self-contradictory, and this has led to state-run media in China to label the current administration in Washington as being narcissistic, fretful, arrogant, aimless and reckless.
Dom Bird, Channel 4's head of formats, says: 'I am delighted to be bringing Nanny Mewes' expertise back to the screens as she tackles the behavioural problems of a whole new set of children and fretful parents.' CRIMEWATCH BBC1, 9pm In September 1994, 38-year-old mother of two Julie Pacey was found dead at her home in Grantham, Lincolnshire.
Unable to interfere, Sally's vigil grows more fretful as her niece develops an unhealthy obsession with African magic.
Mothers and marriages are fretful; where they are protagonists, women are older, childless, or with grown children who are distant.
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Restive, fretful, skittish--and I suppose now, too.
as if they were asking each negligent wave to rock them like fretful
England unsurprisingly chose not to enforce the follow-on, on a pitch already offering ample turn and bounce, only to lose three wickets for eight runs to Peter Siddle to close day two of this second Investec Test on a fretful 31-3 themselves.
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When brought on stage the caged animal is fretful and clearly
When she then realizes that this new living arrangement means going to a different school, she is deeply fretful. Facing a number of new and disconcerting situations--a classmate who takes an instant dislike to her; her mother going on dates, and her parents arranging to sell their house--Lucy turns to the things that have always been her source of comfort and certainty: Grandma, God and the Catholic Church.
ANDY Watson says he is not at all fretful about Blues as they head into today's match against Chelsea.
the fetid, fretful tropics Cupid and pin the rap on scissor-tailed
So it was again today; Hughes' batting a fretful spectacle as he again mixed some fine if eccentric shots with an increasingly evident susceptibility to the short ball.