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Employees became restive as management grew increasingly more demanding.restive = uneasy, impatient, and difficult to control
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Will stirred, restively. (source)restively = uneasily or impatiently
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[NUGGET mimes restiveness.] (source)restiveness = skittishness (tension, fidgeting, and desire to flee)
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Lane was shifting restively in his chair, (source)restively = uneasily or impatiently
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They had all the more reason for doing so because the news of their defeat had spread across the countryside and made the animals on the neighboring farms more restive than ever. (source)restive = impatient and difficult to control
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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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By then, the people of Crete were restive at having to lose their sons and daughters every harvest, and were threatening revolt.† (source)
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The restiveness, the self-consciousness, and the need to oppose disappeared.† (source)restiveness = uneasiness, impatience, or difficult to controlstandard 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)restively = uneasily or impatiently
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Small wonder the lords of the Vale were restive.† (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)restiveness = uneasiness, impatience, or difficult to control
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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)restively = uneasily or impatiently
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See, the rest o' the tribe ...Aragog's family ....they're gettin' a bit funny now he's ill...bit restive ...† (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)restiveness = uneasiness, impatience, or difficult to control
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He relit his cigar, then hunched forward, restively, both arms on the cherrywood surface.† (source)restively = uneasily or impatiently
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He became increasingly restive.† (source)
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