(a.) Disposed to fret; ill-humored; peevish; angry; in a state of vexation; as, a fretful temper.
Example Sentences:
(1) The FSA was fretting about solvency when liquidity was the problem.
(2) She finds indoor activities to discourage the kids from playing outside on the foulest days, and plans holidays abroad as often as possible – but still frets about what their years in Delhi may do to her children’s health.
(3) It might seem absurd, but she also fretted about the horrendous poll tax bills received by people she knew, people she knew couldn't pay.
(4) And in a broader sense, the sort of Conservatives who think intelligently and strategically – and there are more of them than you think – fret that a bearded 66-year-old socialist has ignited political debate in a way that absolutely nobody in the mainstream predicted.
(5) It certainly saved her fretting over her debut sex scene.
(6) Moyes had already described how he had fretted about his attire when Ferguson initially invited him round to discuss the biggest job in English football and how the colour had drained from his face when he was offered it.
(7) For long periods Argentina had been stifled by a fine counterpunching opposition, but it would be a little hasty to fret too much about them after this performance.
(8) Chipmaker ARM is the biggest faller in London, as analysts fret about a slowdown in royalty revenues.
(9) "I used to be really nervous and sit in my dressing room and fret about a scene," he told Rolling Stone .
(10) Hewitt, playing in probably his last Davis Cup for his country at 34 before retiring from the game at the Australian Open in January, added: “We were able to keep Andy out there for a long time, but he’s still favourite [on Sunday].” For the British team, the Murrays’ win lifted a considerable weight off the shoulders of the captain, Leon Smith, who shared the crowd’s anxiety at several key moments of the match, none more fretful than when Andy Murray failed to serve it out in the fourth set and then when they were unable to convert the first match point in the subsequent tie-break.
(11) While Victorians celebrated the empire on which the sun would never set with successive jubilees (golden, 1887, and diamond, 1897), many readers fretted over foreign (increasingly German) threats to the harmony of English life.
(12) On Tuesday, for every wealthy Kolonaki resident fretting about their cash, there was a less well-off state or company employee convinced it would not come to that.
(13) They fretted as political ambition was given rocket boosters by technology.
(14) But better economic sentiment means more market fretting over the Fed's huge stimulus programme being scaled back.
(15) • Follow the Guardian's World Cup team on Twitter • Sign up to play our daily Fantasy Football game • Stats centre: Get the lowdown on every player • The latest semi-final news, features and more People get fretful.
(16) • Three graphs to stop smartphone fans fretting about market share
(17) After dinner she drove him to the railway station while fretting over leaving her baby son sleeping at home.
(18) Significant differences in the shapes of the cathodic Tafel slopes were also seen with cylinders with different surface conditions, and static versus fretting plates.
(19) Despite their jokey exterior, most had big things on their mind, fretting over marriages and babies, breakups and single life; less "grossout" comedy than "freakout".
(20) City analysts still fret that Bailey has either taken on too much or is an unproven chief executive.
Teeny
Definition:
(a.) Very small; tiny.
(a.) Fretful; peevish; pettish; cross.
Example Sentences:
(1) Bargain of the week Charming but teeny-tiny one-bedroom period cottage, £55,000, with williamsonandhenry.com .
(2) In fact, he's a rampant homophobe, which usually suggests someone might actually be a teeny bit gay and trying to hide it – but he isn't, at all.
(3) News that gave me a teeny bit of hope for 21st century politics: attorney general Eric Holder and the Department of Justice filed suit against a North Carolina voting law.
(4) The ITV pictures showed him level when the ball was played, then the computer showed his leg was sticking out but, even if you accept it was accurate modelling, doesn't that mean he was level except a teeny weeny bit of him (what happened to the 'daylight' rule?).
(5) He gets a nice comic entrance – stepping out suddenly from beneath a vast coronation mantle to reveal how teeny-weeny he is.
(6) Teeny's daughter later remembered: "My mother told me that at one point Henry Miller had a crush on her, but he was rather vulgar ... whereas Marcel had a very light touch."
(7) "You could have it pumped directly into your stomach at ten pints a second and you would still metabolise the teeny tiny amounts of alcohol faster than it enters your body.
(8) Brigitte is a posh wendy house for grown ups, I realised as we squeezed ourselves inside the nine-metre-squared space, which somehow fits a double bed, a tiny table, chair and stool, a teeny bathroom with shower, two slender wardrobes, three shelves, and a kitchenette, with fridge, hob and coffee maker.
(9) When I was really teeny, I used to pull the curtains across the bay window and come out, play my plastic ukulele, and pretend to be Elvis Presley or Lonnie Donegan .
(10) Unlike the previous limited run Minecraft sets, which feature small sections of blocky landscape and teeny creepers and zombies, the two new sets The Cave and The Farm are scaled around normal-sized minifigure models – like most of the major Lego series.
(11) But it's only 20 quid, says my teeny voice of reason.
(12) I’m still in touch with some of the people who stayed in my teeny flat, and the thoughtful gifts left by others are on my shelf.
(13) Thanks to the imagination and energy of a new generation of performers and composers, the teenies could be better still.
(14) According to Teeny, it was the only time she had to remove his shoes before bed.
(15) The bricks are losing weight due to decades of radiation but a spokeswoman for EDF said the new limit was only a "teeny little step" that was well within the most conservative safety case.
(16) No doubt in some blue-sky meeting, some sunny morning before Steve Hilton left, when everyone was still allowed to wear sandals and think of ways to turn the UK into a teeny, cut-price America, this seemed like a good idea: why do charities have to stick their oar in?
(17) Mark Zuckerberg's baby got off to an inauspicious start; the shares had a teeny blip up after the start of trading but have gone downhill ever since.
(18) Now, back to Dr Ken: sweet, sincere, a teeny bit dull.
(19) Microsoft is also trying to court these teeny studios too – everyone wants to find the next big crossover hit, like Minecraft.
(20) Alexina Sattler (Teeny) In 1954, Duchamp married Sattler, the former wife of art dealer Pierre Matisse and son of the painter Henri Matisse.