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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

... stopped to inquire what I was doing in Swazi-Land, nor do I think he realized that I was not alone. Certainly he was quite unaware that I had been mixed up in these Basuto troubles. Still his story as to the investigation concerning the deaths of Marnham and Rodd made me uneasy, since I feared lest he should hear something on his journey and put two and two together, though as a matter of fact I don't think he ever did ...

— Finished • H. Rider Haggard

... right, father," was the answer, with an uneasy look. For this description seemed less what Guy was than what we desired him to be. With his easy, happy temper, generous but uncertain, and his showy, brilliant parts, he was not nearly so much to be depended on as the grave Edwin, who ...

— John Halifax, Gentleman • Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

... think you need be uneasy, sir. I know the captain of the Brilliant, and all the officers. If you like, I will keep the polacre on that side, so that they will come up to us first; and will go on board, and speak to the captain. I don't think, then, he ...

— Held Fast For England - A Tale of the Siege of Gibraltar (1779-83) • G. A. Henty

... She was extraordinarily attractive, this slim young woman from London who was staying at Mallow, but she not infrequently gave utterances to remarks which, although apparently straight-forward enough, yet filled him with a vague, uneasy feeling that they held some undercurrent of significance ...

— The Moon out of Reach • Margaret Pedler

... together in divine unity. As one listened, it was the inspired truth as uttered by Hamilton Gregory that brought the message home to conscience. As if one had never before been told that one reaps what one sows, uneasy memory started out of hidden places with its whisper of seed sown amiss. Tears rose to many eyes, and ...

— Fran • John Breckenridge Ellis

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