Examples of fretful

• For the most part, during the preoperative period, when the infant or child is frequently fretful and distressed, the care is provided by the parents.

• Those were heady times, made more acute and often fretful by the lack of confidence in where things might go.

• Our society, which obeyed the law and understood the concept of the rule of law, has become more and more fretful.

• If they do not get it, they become nervous and fretful.

• Solicitors as a group are, naturally, fretful that they should be made the scapegoat for the present state of the law.

• Many of them are substantial grievances; some of them loom large, just because men have become tired and fretful.

• It is often fretful and vociferous, and even malignant.

• There is a real danger that impatient and fretful men, swept off their feet by indignation and enthusiasm, may destroy more than they build.