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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

... answered Paul, who had begun to grow uneasy under this questioning, for a kind of vague apprehension was aroused in his mind, and he could not see the utility of any of these interrogations. There was, however, nothing in Mascarin's manner to justify the misgivings of the young man, for he appeared to ask all these ...

— Caught In The Net • Emile Gaboriau

... time I had heard May's story. She had felt uneasy at being alone, but had laughed at herself for being so, until upon her speaking to one of the servants he had answered in a tone of gross insolence, which had astonished her. She at once guessed that there was danger, and the moment that she was alone caught up a large, dark carriage rug, ...

— Among Malay Pirates - And Other Tales Of Adventure And Peril • G. A. Henty

... casual visit. It occurred to him to bring along some unsuspected party to help him out. The robbers would never expect to find the money on a woman. That's why the major brought his daughter with him. Doesn't it make you some uneasy to be carrying fifty thousand in small bills sewed in your clothes and ...

— Bucky O'Connor • William MacLeod Raine

... to feel uneasy. The change in Mr. Bygrave's manner seemed ominous of a reconsideration of his proposals from a new and unfavorable point of view. He took counsel of his inborn cowardice and his inborn cunning, and proposed a solution of ...

— No Name • Wilkie Collins

... the frame of which stood a little way back from the road. Marjorie watched him for a few moments, admiring the evenness with which he placed the pickets, and the sure, firm blows of the hammer; at last, however, she began to grow uneasy. "Look," she said to the Dream, "see how close together he is nailing them. That isn't the right way. Why do you suppose he does it so? He's just spoiling ...

— By the Roadside • Katherine M. Yates

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