0 in a way that shows you are unhappy, worried, or uncomfortable:
They spent a lot of time complaining fretfully about the children's behaviour.
As he talked, he fretfully rubbed the tips of his fingers together.
"They don't want people to come here," said Betty fretfully.
The shrewd face jerked fretfully, and the lips were opened for a retort, checked by a gloved hand laid upon the forward child's.
But there is in resignation a further good element: even real goods, when they are unattainable, ought not to be fretfully desired.
He sat up, blinked at the sun, swore fretfully, and pulled his blanket over the ornamental splendors of his head.
Incontestably the racing, the horses lining fretfully and scrambling through the muddy pools, left me cold.
He twisted fretfully in his sleep; the body tried to rise, anticipating nature even when the mind could not.
