All 6 Uses of
restive
in
Franny and Zooey
- His voice carried with a minimum of vitality, as though he had come over to speak to Lane out of boredom or restiveness, not for any sort of human discourse.†
Chpt 1.1
- Lane was shifting restively in his chair,
Chpt 1.2 *restively = uneasily or impatiently
- In general, listeners were divided into two, curiously restive camps: those who held that the Glasses were a bunch of insufferably "superior" little bastards that should have been drowned or gassed at birth, and those who held that they were bona-fide underage wits and savants, of an uncommon, if unenviable, order.†
Chpt 2.1
- She straightened her back restively.†
Chpt 2.2
- But he got up from the piano bench too restively for it to have been a real gesture of dismissal.†
Chpt 2.3
- He relit his cigar, then hunched forward, restively, both arms on the cherrywood surface.†
Chpt 2.3
Definition:
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(restive) uneasy, impatient, and difficult to control