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• n  an irritable petulant feeling

• In Madrid's official La Nacion, His Excellency indulged in further fretfulness: "The aristocrats are objecting to the Dictatorship.
• That would mean manufacturers could no longer say their products relieve "fretfulness," "jumpy nerves," "cold symptoms" or being "under the weather.
• Don't I Have a Heart gives a nice airing to Tyler's pubescent fretfulness, a mix of bravado and bafflement ("I don't have a clue, But don't I have a heart?").

• irritability
• crossness
• fussiness
• peevishness
• petulance
• choler