List of synonyms from "fretful" to synonyms from "frightful/frightening"


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Definition of the day : « fretting »

  • verb worry, be annoyed
  • verb upset someone
  • verb rub hard
Example sentences :
  • Mr. Galloway was fuming and fretting at the non-arrival of his clerk, Mr. Jenkins.
  • Extract from : « The Channings » by Mrs. Henry Wood
  • Give him a touch with the rope's-end, Jem, if ever you do observe him fretting.
  • Extract from : « Micah Clarke » by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Sam was forward, keeping a lookout and fretting at the delay.
  • Extract from : « The Depot Master » by Joseph C. Lincoln
  • Two years passed, and at eighteen she was fretting that half her life had wasted away.
  • Extract from : « The Christian » by Hall Caine
  • "Fretting again, your Honour," said the man, in a half whisper.
  • Extract from : « The Manxman » by Hall Caine
  • I think she is fretting because we have not heard from my brother for rather a long time.
  • Extract from : « Under Western Eyes » by Joseph Conrad
  • He had a stroke of some kind, or fit of one sort or another, brought on by fretting.
  • Extract from : « The Fortunes Of Glencore » by Charles James Lever
  • If he had half of that sum now he would not be fretting about his pay-roll or his notes.
  • Extract from : « In a Little Town » by Rupert Hughes
  • You're not fretting because of the paltry little sum I advanced for your rent, are you?
  • Extract from : « An American Suffragette » by Isaac N. Stevens
  • In peace true soldiers are captive lions, fretting in their cages.
  • Extract from : « The Chocolate Soldier » by C. T. Studd