flurried

[ flur-eed, fluhr- ]

adjective

1. marked by confusion or agitation.

Other Words From

• un·flurried adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of flurried¹

flurry + -ed ²

Example Sentences

He is as usual hurried, flurried, taken up with innumerable business and wishing to be quiet.

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She was plainly flurried by the meeting, and looking about trying to find if there were not, even yet, a way of evading it.

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He was too flurried to knock this time, and, indeed, Lisbeth did not expect it of him.

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Mrs. Twig, still flurried with the coming of a stranger, met them at the door.

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Some looked flurried, some looked sullen; but all looked anxious, we thought.

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