Fretful in a sentence as an adjective

‘I only wish I had such eyes,’ the King remarked in a fretful tone. ‘To be able to see Nobody!

Somehow that's less fretful than the other way around. Cross-browser DOM programming will drive you to a good rant, for sure.

The people grow fretful. A truly secure device from somewhere outside the US gains market traction.

Unfortunately, this is something people do get fretful about, and then decide something has to be done.

Perhaps it's the author's fretful nature and over analysis that drives women away? I've found the following 'tactics' have worked quite well: - If you want to send a message, send a message.

It's intended to poke fun at fretful American parents and the things they say to motivate children. I've gotten more outrage over this one sentence from Finns than anything else in the book.

And the only way it seems even related to my message is if you ignore my explicit caveat about how annoying and fretful jailbreaking is. Which I'm fairly certain you read - why, it's right there, in the bit you quoted.

I used to be more fretful with fresh fruit, thinking it was really expensive, but the more of that i buy the less of the more expensive stuff i need, and no one's going hungry around here. you're right that bread and the like are cheap, but there's only so much of that a person can eat.

Needless to say, a few minutes after our section was on its way to Preston, a few fretful discussions that included the phrase "... didn't you hear the announcements?

But the issue here is that fretful American parents assume that anywhere their little darlings go off to will be unsafe, and their children shouldn't be left all on their own.

Like we're all fretful hens who can't handle that information without significant preparatory plumage-smoothing.

This article reminds me of the recent years' of German beekeepers writing fretful papers on excessive insect die-offs. Worrywarts have long forecast ecological disaster.

Projects like this make me hopeful for the world, but fretful for America. Not because of the increased competition or outsourcing or anything like that, but because by and large we've created a political climate where large infrastructure developments are nearly impossible to implement.

I see this point but I think this example does not lend itself to explaining the notion of defining a good prior because it is such a simple scenario - it biases responses to focus on the absurdity and unnecessarily fretful complexification. And it opens the door to all sorts of subjective objections so that nothing can actually be said.

Fretful definitions

adjective

nervous and unable to relax; "a constant fretful stamping of hooves"; "a restless child"

See also: antsy fidgety itchy

adjective

habitually complaining; "a whiny child"

See also: querulous whiney whiny