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fretter
noun as in critic
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noun as in niggler
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noun as in nitpicker
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noun as in quibbler
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Example Sentences
The Democrats quit fretting; now Trump looks like the fretter.
I may regret admitting this aloud, but I, too, am not the relentless fretter on these issues that I used to be.
Dahlia once called him a “monster states’ rights fretter,” but really, he’s a fretter about everything.
When Upton Close presented his wife, Margaret Fretter Nye, with a Palm Beach, Florida, mansion for her birthday in 1954, the exuberant home, with its candlelike pillars and icing-esque stucco walls, took on a rather fitting moniker: the Birthday Cake Castle.
Because I'm a worrier, quite a pathetic fretter.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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