restive
Being so cold, I restively waited for my hot drink.
The children slept restively, reliving their adventures.
Rohan moved swiftly, restively.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Anxious and worried
(all) hot and botheredidiom
aflutter
agitated
angsty
anxious
fretfully
frightened
fuss
get in a sweatidiom
goosey
pit of your stomachidiom
preoccupied
prey
prey on sb's mindidiom
prey on something
worried
worriedly
worrier
worrywart
wound up

Examples of restively

restively
He drank three cups of tea, chatted restively, drummed with big fingers on the chair-arm and finally looked at his watch.
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He was wild with impatience to learn the particulars, and chafed restively against his confinement in that tomb-like place.
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He began to riffle the leaves of the book, restively.
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However, as he started toward the house the mustang awoke and stirred restively.
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Fellows on the seats began to breathe hard and lean restively forward.
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She moved a pace or two aimlessly, restively.
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None of us had, and we waited rather restively for the passing of the musing fit which he fell into.
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He turned, and restively paced the worn carpet, pausing at the window for a despondent glance across the roofs and chimney pots of the city.
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He finally arose to his feet, and began restively pacing about the switch tower.
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Yet in his room afterward he paced the floor restively for a long while before he sought his bed.
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A solitary saddle-horse rattled his bit, pawed restively, and tossed his head worriedly from side to side, as if prescience had touched him with foretelling.
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The man sat waiting, while the thoroughbreds pawed the ground and reached restively at their bits.
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He wriggled restively, looked up, and then looked down.
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