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Uneasy

adjective

Lacking a sense of security or affording no ease or reassurance. "Uneasy about his health" , "Gave an uneasy laugh" , "Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown" , "An uneasy coalition government" , "An uneasy calm" , "An uneasy silence fell on the group"

Lacking or not affording physical or mental rest. Synonym: restless. "She fell into an uneasy sleep"

Causing or fraught with or showing anxiety. Synonyms: anxious, nervous, queasy, unquiet. "Cast anxious glances behind her" , "Those nervous moments before takeoff" , "An unquiet mind"

Socially uncomfortable; unsure and constrained in manner. Synonyms: awkward, ill at ease. "Ill at ease among eddies of people he didn't know" , "Was always uneasy with strangers"

Relating to bodily unease that causes discomfort.

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"Uneasy" Quotes from Famous Books

... that I had taken the precaution to lock my cabin-door and remove the key before leaving the brigantine, so that should it chance that I was sought for, it might be thought that I had locked myself into my cabin in anger at the piratical deed that had been perpetrated. But I grew increasingly uneasy as the minutes dragged their slow length along, expecting every moment to hear a hail from the brigantine inquiring as to my whereabouts. It was therefore with a feeling of keen delight that, at the expiration ...

— The Pirate Slaver - A Story of the West African Coast • Harry Collingwood

... fear passed by; unbelief has again raised itself; whereon we can see that other and even more fearful revolutions {1} are daily threatening. What country is safe? In what part of the world do not men feel an uneasy foreboding of the wrath which will surely come if they do not repent and turn unto the Lord their God? Go where we will we are conscious of that heaviness and oppression which is the precursor of the hurricane and the earthquake; none escape it: an all-pervading ...

— The Fair Haven • Samuel Butler

... bleaches the broken coral? Many do avail themselves of the meagre shadow of shells and lumps of coral, but the majority are exposed to the direct rays of the sun, which brings the coral to such a heat that even the hardened beachcomber walks thereon with "uneasy steps," reminding him of another outcast who used that oft-quoted staff as a support over the "burning marl." Gilbert White relates that a pair of fly-catchers which inadvertently placed their nests in an intolerably ...

— The Confessions of a Beachcomber • E J Banfield

... refuge with Guard in the shade of the sails. All around us was a stillness which passes words, broken loudly by our steps on the hot deck, and the occasional graze of ice-cakes against the sides. We felt uneasy enough. This ...

— Left on Labrador - or, The cruise of the Schooner-yacht 'Curlew.' as Recorded by 'Wash.' • Charles Asbury Stephens

... expressively called nagging. Leonard would reply angrily, and the flashes of his passion generally produced silence. Neither brother spoke to Averil of these evening interludes, which were becoming almost habitual, but they kept Leonard in a constant sore sense of injury, yet of uneasy conscience. He looked to the Randall scholarship as his best hope of leaving home and its torments, but his illness had thrown him back: he had not only lost the last quarter, but the acquirements of the one before it were obscured; and the vexations themselves ...

— The Trial - or, More Links of the Daisy Chain • Charlotte M. Yonge

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