Crossword clues for worriment
worriment
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Worriment \Wor"ri*ment\, n. [See Worry.] Trouble; anxiety; worry. [Colloq. U. S.]
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of worrying. 2 A worrying situation or thing.
WordNet
n. a difficulty that causes anxiety [syn: troublesomeness, inconvenience]
Usage examples of "worriment".
CHAPTER XI THE BARKING DOG Disappointment, and not a little worriment, held the four girls silent for a moment.
Baggert no little worriment, for she was a housekeeper who liked to see others enjoy her cooking.
The only worriment was whether or not the motor would start up after the break-down, not having been run since it was so hastily repaired.
It troubles me to think of her worriment over this foolish little episode, and with your permission I will go and try to banish the cloud.
Tigh was always finding something to worry about, especially if the worriment could be written up in a report.
Tito came with my evening meal, looking with worriment at my face, my bloodstained dress, and coaxing me to eat before the light went altogether.
Augustine in 1683, and who had been a constant source of worriment to the Jamaicans because of his attacks on the fishing sloops, sailed to Boston and disposed of his booty of gold, silver, jewels and cocoa to the godly New England merchants, who were only too ready to take advantage of so profitable a trade and gladly fitted him out for another cruise.
The children are a perfect worriment, everything about the house goes wrong, Ralph looks so discontented.
But as he led the way forward Ruth noticed a look of worriment on the face of the old sailor.
But Grandma listened patiently and when he was emptied of all his sorrows and worriments she took him out into her herb-garden, seated him where he could see the sunset hills and then she preached a marvellous sermon to just this one man alone.
Then there is a long line of particular fears and trouble-bearing expectations, such, for example, as ideas associated with certain articles of food, the dread of the east wind, the terrors of hot weather, the aches and pains associated with cold weather, the fear of catching cold if one sits in a draught, the coming of hay-fever upon the 14th of August in the middle of the day, and so on through a long list of fears, dreads, worriments, anxieties, anticipations, expectations, pessimisms, morbidities, and the whole ghostly train of fateful shapes which our fellow-men, and especially physicians, are ready to help us conjure up, an array worthy to rank with Bradley's 'unearthly ballet of bloodless categories.