restive
adjective
impatient of control, restraint, or delay, as persons; restless; uneasy.
restively
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a word derived from
restive.
Example Sentences
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As word of the arrests spread, other protesters milled restively outside the cordoned-off area around Trafalgar Square.
From New York Times ● May 6, 2023
There’s also a lack of geographic focus; whereas Kubrick homed in on the Overlook and pretty much stayed there, Flanagan’s film is all over the place, crossing restively from state to state.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 8, 2019
It takes deeply rooted and restively curious minds to make music like this.
From New York Times ● Jul. 21, 2017
The men sat restively before their weather-seamed shacks, slicing their tobacco thin, and talking.
From Time Magazine Archive
But he got up from the piano bench too restively for it to have been a real gesture of dismissal.
From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger
