Restive

unable to stay still or silent and becoming increasingly difficult to control (usually happening because of impatience, boredom or some sort of dissatisfaction) alternative definition exclusively when describing a horse: refusing to advance; stubornly standing still; moving backwards or sideways

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Philippine troops dispatched as shelling erupts amid tribal clashes in restive south

By Kenneth Christian L. Basilio, reporter Government troops were deployed to a southern Philippine city on Tuesday after a family clan invaded the area in search of the suspected killer of one of its members,…

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Bartleby, the Bot

Bartleby, the Bot

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In fact, precisely as a rash, restive horse is said to feel his oats, so Turkey felt his coat.

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Scott L Greer

Scott L Greer

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Very good.

[Macron, whom] "many hoped would be transformative proved to be just another young man with old-fashioned ideas. Within weeks, he embraced the trappings of the office and set about governing the country in a top-down, micromanagerial manner maladapted to a restive and anxious country"

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