Crossword clues for restlessly
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Restless \Rest"less\, a. [AS. restle['a]s.]
Never resting; unquiet; uneasy; continually moving; as, a restless child.
--Chaucer. ``Restless revolution day by day.''
--Milton.Not satisfied to be at rest or in peace; averse to repose or quiet; eager for change; discontented; as, restless schemers; restless ambition; restless subjects. ``Restless at home, and ever prone to range.''
--Dryden.-
Deprived of rest or sleep.
Restless he passed the remnants of the night.
--Dryden. Passed in unquietness; as, the patient has had a restless night.
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Not affording rest; as, a restless chair.
--Cowper.Restless thrush. (Zo["o]l.) See Grinder, 3.
Syn: Unquiet; uneasy; disturbed; disquieted; sleepless; agitated; unsettled; roving; wandering. [1913 Webster] -- Rest"less*ly, adv.- Rest"less*ness, n.
Wiktionary
adv. In a restless manner.
WordNet
adv. in a restless manner; "he cracked his knuckles restlessly"
Usage examples of "restlessly".
The boy was trembling with excitement, his bright green eyes sparkling as he drank in the splendid vision of the mounted warriors, their gleaming weapons and splendid accouterments, the restless thaptors pawing at the dust, arching their proud necks restlessly, the brilliant bannerol snapping in a brisk breeze.
In Cloud City on the planet Bespin, the new Baron Administrator, Zorba the Hutt, slept restlessly.
Trinket was beginning to get pins and needles, and kept restlessly jumping up and sitting down again, inwardly cursing the old bonze and his ancestors.
The main body of knights and fighting men waited restlessly, burnishing lance and sword and tending to their armor, making sure it was in good repair.
The nearest school stood half an hour distant in 1315 Alpha, while Town--the large market center of Mulling Crucis, with its throng of 6,000 restlessly jostling people--lay some two hours distant by omnibus.
They could hear Mano restlessly sectioning off the lake with great thrusts of his muscular body.
The noise of the canvas on high resembled the stirring of pinions, and the cheep of a block, the grind of a parrel, helped the illusion, as though the sounds were the voices of huge birds restlessly beating their pinions aloft.
But Penner, who had never done this sort of work before, shifted restlessly about, flexing his neck muscles, reshaping the folds of his newspaper, and glancing this way and that.
When Mitch came back downstairs, Megan was prowling around his living room restlessly.
Dinkel restlessly rummages through the news, his sheet of epaper flickering as millions of microscopic balls, each one half white and half black, realign into new text and pictures.
She was more concerned that she had no dark glasses to hide her hideous scars and that the thick rope of hair was a mess from squirming restlessly.
He shifted his shoulders restlessly, half shrugging as though his coat were too tight.
By noon, the spayed calico was on her feet, restlessly pacing the cage, yowling for food.
He looked down and found silver fire raging and sputtering around him, spilling restlessly out of his stomach along with something pale, bloody, and ropy that must be his own innards.
Tears of frustration stung her eyes as she tossed restlessly upon the bed.