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adjective

Uneasy adj.

Not easy; difficult. (R.) "Things... so uneasy to be satisfactorily understood." "The road will be uneasy to find."

Restless; disturbed by pain, anxiety, or the like; disquieted; perturbed. "The soul, uneasy and confined from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come."

Not easy in manner; constrained; stiff; awkward; not graceful; as, an uneasy deportment.

Occasioning want of ease; constraining; cramping; disagreeable; unpleasing. "His uneasy station." "A sour, untractable nature makes him uneasy to those who approach him."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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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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