adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The southern region was growing increasingly restive .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Another person joined the queue and the old lady immediately behind him began to look restive .
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Her restive fingers toyed with the battered keys.
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If his wife is restive , he sees welfare as a positive invitation from the state for her to dissolve the marriage.
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In the driving mirror I saw the driver of the estate-car was growing restive .
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Similar appeals to restive Protestant gunmen came Thursday from civic and church leaders and government officials.
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The men from Foss were restive .