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uneasy
[ uhn-ee-zee ]
adjective
- not conducive to ease; causing bodily discomfort.
uneasy
/ ʌnˈiːzɪ /
adjective
- (of a person) anxious; apprehensive
- (of a condition) precarious; uncomfortable
an uneasy truce
- (of a thought, etc) disturbing; disquieting
Derived Forms
- unˈease, noun
- unˈeasiness, noun
- unˈeasily, adverb
Other Words From
- un·ease noun
- un·eas·i·ly adverb
- un·eas·i·ness noun
Word History and Origins
Example Sentences
Trump "might as well give Liz Cheney the State Department," he wrote, possibly referring to Cheney and Rubio's shared support for American power projection or comparing Cheney's opposition to Trump with Rubio's uneasy conversion since the 2016 GOP presidential primaries.
But a Supreme Court judgement from April has made conservationists uneasy.
To see how much the chief justice has changed, remember the role he played in Trump’s first term: the uneasy guardrail against some of the president’s most extreme policies and grievances.
The displaced have themselves also been bombed, in areas far removed from combat zones - such as in the Christian majority northern village of Aitou, where 23 people were killed in an air strike last month - and their host communities across the country are increasingly uneasy; no-one knows when and where Israel might strike.
The former president defeated Vice President Kamala Harris by harnessing the abiding dissatisfaction of many Americans — uneasy about the high cost of living, unsettled about a southern border they view as insecure and disturbed over an evolving culture they feel has strayed too far from traditional values.
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