Sample Sentences for
restive
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    Lane was shifting restively in his chair,  (source)
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    [NUGGET mimes restiveness.]  (source)
    restiveness = skittishness (tension, fidgeting, and desire to flee)
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    The brush along the road stirred restively under a new and unexpected population of gray tigers and gray bears.  (source)
    restively = uneasily
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    Small wonder the lords of the Vale were restive.†  (source)
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    The restiveness, the self-consciousness, and the need to oppose disappeared.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    [restively] I quite expect to get married in the course of the afternoon†  (source)
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    The remark did not meet with a favorable reception in some of the more restive banlieues.†  (source)
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    As would be said within his own family, "The only impatience of temper he ever exhibited was with his horse, which he subdued to his will by a fearless application of the whip on the slightest manifestation of restiveness."†  (source)
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    But he got up from the piano bench too restively for it to have been a real gesture of dismissal.†  (source)
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    Even the room felt restive: The afternoon sun lit up an atomic flurry of dust motes.†  (source)
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    But as Claggart went on, the former's aspect changed into restiveness under something in the witness' manner in giving his testimony.†  (source)
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    He relit his cigar, then hunched forward, restively, both arms on the cherrywood surface.†  (source)
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    The cattle were restive too, mosquitoes around their eyes and in their nostrils.†  (source)
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