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n. The quality of being fretful

n. The state or character of being fretful; peevishness; ill humor; disposition to fret and complain; irritability.

n. an irritable petulant feeling

"A good man may be in want, but then he quiets himself, and strives to make himself easy; but these people when they shall be hungry shall fret themselves, and when they have nothing to feed on their vexation shall prey upon their own spirits; for fretfulness is a sin that is its own punishment."

fretfulness    frets    fretted    fretting   

dapple    maculation    speckle    fleck    patch    spot    agitation    vex    get at    chafe   

agitate    annoy    irritate    to fret in    curvilinear fret    diamond fret    to fret one's gizzard    lozenge fret    fret couped    dovetail fret   

fretum    transfrete   

fretted    fretting    frith    fretwork   

fretboard   

rub    chafe    gall    gnaw    impair    diminish    tease    irritate    vex    fray   

Annette    Antoinette    Bernadette    Bizet    Bret    Brett    Burnett    Calumet    Chalmette    Chet