fretter

Example Sentences

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I may regret admitting this aloud, but I, too, am not the relentless fretter on these issues that I used to be.

From New York Times • Nov. 11, 2020

Dahlia once called him a “monster states’ rights fretter,” but really, he’s a fretter about everything.

From Slate • May 8, 2015

The 62-year-old David isn't cranky or a curmudgeon – words often used to describe his alter ego, also called Larry David, in the hugely successful US sitcom Curb Your Enthusiasm – but he is a fretter.

From The Guardian • Jun. 25, 2010

No fretter, he can be so blunt as to offend strangers who mistake his abrupt decisiveness for insult.

From Time Magazine Archive

The fretter and those about him are made uncomfortable.

From Maintaining Health Formerly Health and Efficiency by Alsaker, R. L.