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was restive
adjective
Impatient under delay, duress, or control.
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The military was restive.
The crowd was restive.
The working class was restive.
The human rights job did not particularly suit him, and he was restive in it.
The nation's fragile new democracy was barely two years old, and the hard-line military was restive.
On Halloween, while Teri was taking Ella trick-or-treating in our neighborhood, as she had promised to do, Isabel was restive again in my arms.
Similar(46)
Workers are restive.
Yet Hungary is restive.
The government is restive.
Even the Liberals are restive.
Mrs Merkel's allies are restive.
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