Definition of "fretfully" []

• In a fretful manner (adverb)

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• ""I call fretfully as my baby birds, sunblocked and behatted flit off down the street."
• ""If it don't rain soon," she called fretfully, "I guess you'll find yourselves alone an 'forsaken, like pelicans in the wilderness."
• "Mrs. Martin was out of bed, calling fretfully into the passage for Dilman."