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• For example, in They appear uneasy, the property of being uneasy is predicated of (the referent of) they, which is therefore the predicand.From the entry predicand
• The C.D.S. is a product of the uneasy relationship between the U.S.2022 September 24, Ron Lieber, “The Discount Data That Some Colleges Won’t Publish”, in The New York Times. From the entry rankee
• With the arrival of European settlers, an uneasy truce was established tween man and skunk.2021 April 18, Christy Stratton & Erin Wagoner, “Hoot 'N Haw” (1:33 from the start), in Bless the Harts, season 2, episode 18, spoken by…. From the entry 'tween
• These locations reflect the dilemma and uneasy compromise between desirable, yet mutually exclusive features.2000, Markus M. L. Crepaz, Thomas Albert Koelble, David Wilsford, Democracy and Institutions: The Life Work of Arend Lijphart, page 79. From the entry consensualism
• The armrests were forced out into a tired vee, to the accompaniment of an uneasy creaking sound.1989, Grant Naylor, Red Dwarf. From the entry vee
• It marked the last uneasy phase of the Christian faith's waning creative power.1962, Gerhard Szczesny, The Future of Unbelief, page 19. From the entry misachievement
• For a moment she felt uneasy, as if she were being trapped by something sweetfully insidious.1920, Charles Caldwell Dobie, chapter IV, in The Blood Red Dawn, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers, page 42. From the entry sweetfully
• Finally I gave him a draught, and he sank into uneasy slumber.1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 35”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC. From the entry draught
• He spoke fast, with the uneasy tone that so often underran his words.1904, Katherine Cecil Thurston, The Masquerader, page 26. From the entry underrun
• In The Last Guardian, a kidnapped boy forges an uneasy relationship with a frightening beast in order to survive.2019 May 8, Jon Bailes, “Save yourself! The video games casting us as helpless children”, in The Guardian. From the entry forge
• The abortion fight we are gearing up for departs from the realm of uneasy compromise and reëngages the clash of absolutes.2019 June 5, Jeannie Suk Gersen, “How Fetal Personhood Emerged as the Next Stage of the Abortion Wars”, in The New Yorker, New York, N.Y.…. From the entry reëngage
• No, but many users were uneasy and indignant.2010, Stephanie Sammartino McPherson, “Branching Out in All Directions”, in Sergey Brin and Larry Page: Founders of Google (USA Today…. From the entry gmail
• MAD was the way of life most of us grew up with, the prevailing logic of uneasy peace.2005 February 7, Peter Preston, “A nuclear Iran is not the problem”, in The Guardian. From the entry mad
• Yet certain films leave a residual memory—such as Psycho: many people still feel uneasy showering in a motel bathroom.1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 185. From the entry residual
• Pickpockets dislike being watched, even by those who may be "right," because they become uneasy and clumsy and feel conspicuous.1977, Robert S. Weppner, Street ethnography, page 70. From the entry cannon
• "You're making us all feel uncomfortable and uneasy.1963, A. R. Gurney, The Comeback, →ISBN, page 11. From the entry skunk at a garden party
• The tensions of an uneasy peace stressed anew the importance of the 46-year-old Entente Cordiale between France and Britain.1950 March 20, “The Nations: Cordial Visit”, in Time, retrieved 08 Jul 2015. From the entry entente cordiale
• This made my brother uneasy, and he refused to take the risk of allowing me to sail immediately.1927-29, M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter xii. From the entry gale
• But they were not reticent enough to prevent the circulation of certain uneasy rumours and extravagant stories of discreditable adventures.1922, Rafael Sabatini, “chapter XXV”, in Captain Blood: His Odyssy. From the entry reticent
• We need it, and it surrounds us, yet we remain uneasy about living with invisible light, partly because we fear what is unknown.2017, Bob Berman, Zapped: From Infrared to X-rays, the Curious History of Invisible Light, Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, pages 8-9. From the entry light
• As days passed and Chief Justice Lewis said nothing about it, Kent and his convert to Hamiltonism, Judge Smith Thompson, grew uneasy.2000, Thomas Fleming, Duel. From the entry Hamiltonism
• Conversely, the collaborating chiefs, under the leadership of Kaiser Matanzima, express their uneasy agreement with apartheid by raising the thinly veiled spectre of antiwhiteism.1978, Ian Robertson, Phillip Whitten, Race and Politics in South Africa, page 7. From the entry antiwhiteism
• The author now brings economics to the personal level, asking and pondering these uneasy, but close-to-the-bone questions: Are we economic people or self-developing persons?1977 December 10, Arnold W. Klassen, “Looking For Alternatives: A New Political Analysis”, in Gay Community News, volume 5, number 23…. From the entry close to the bone
• In her society you always had the uneasy feeling that something was likely to go off at any moment with a pop.1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter I and X. From the entry soup
• When we do not hear from you and Annette for a long period, we get uneasy and wonder what can the matter be?1927 November 3, Richard Dewey, “Letter to Dr. C[olonel] B[ell] Burr”, in Selected Papers, Chicago, Ill., published 1943, →OCLC, page 20. From the entry tua culpa
• Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown, uneasy also, lies the wife of that head, and the best friend of the wife.1914, Upton Sinclair, Sylvia's Marriage. From the entry uneasy lies the head that wears a crown
• If we triangulate these various assertions, one thing remains consistent: an uneasy pairing of discomfort and comfort, of the unfamiliar with the familiar, great love obfuscated by immense terror.2025 January 24, Jacob Slankard, “What Does “Lynchian” Mean Anyways?”, in Collider. From the entry Lynchian
• He was uneasy about being linked indiscriminately to other novelists she had anointed but whose work he did not respect, and she got wind of his discontent.2015, Philip Weinstein, Jonathan Franzen: The Comedy of Rage, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN. From the entry Oprah
• "The word 'boom' always makes me uneasy because the antonym of it is bust," said Patrick Jankowski, vice president of research at the Greater Houston Partnership.2008 October 14, Chris Baltimore, “FEATURE-Oil dollars help Houston dodge U.S. economic woes”, in Reuters. From the entry antonym
• Sometimes it is not the journalist who is in peril but the subject of a story, and naming names can leave both the reporter and the reader uneasy.2008 May 18, Clark Hoyt, “Journalism From the Bottom of the Boat”, in New York Times, retrieved 16 Jun 2011. From the entry name names
• Jack Straw today admitted that he was "always uneasy" about the government's refusal to offer greater protection for have-a-go-heroes as he explained plans to review the laws on self-defence.2007 September 27, Deborah Summers, “Straw reveals past as have-a-go hero”, in The Guardian. From the entry have-a-go hero
• He draws out the purificatory implications of Apollo's apotreptic intervention when an uneasy feeling rises from the mantic spirit within him to meet the voice of the god.2006, John Bussanich, Socrates and Religious Experience, read in Sara Ahbel-Rappe, Rachana Kamtekar (editors), A Companion to Socrates…. From the entry apotreptic
• Nick could see that Ronnie might be a bit of a handful, and that his line of work might make a certain kind of girl uneasy.2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN. From the entry line of work
• The latter is slightly reconciled though the former has had sallies in politics and in religion but continues to have an uneasy relationship with aggressive Dravidian Tamilism.2003, Bhikhu Parekh, Gurharpal Singh, Steven Vertovec, Culture and Economy in the Indian Diaspora, page 75. From the entry Tamilism
• He knew something was wrong by the smell of the house and the sounds and colours of uneasy light that told him the mood of things was all akilter.2002, Iris Murdoch, The Time of the Angels, page 297. From the entry akilter
• During the whole of the previous night Clarry heard her creaking with poignant, uneasy awareness; sleeping on her deck, he had gained a smattering of her timbery language.1957, Simon Kent [pseudonym; Max Catto], Ferry to Hongkong, London: Hutchinson, page 119. From the entry timbery

Meaning of uneasy

1. adjective Not easy; difficult.
2. adjective Restless; disturbed by pain, anxiety.
3. adjective Not easy in manner; constrained.

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Questions about uneasy in a sentence

How do you use uneasy in a sentence?

Uneasy is used as an adjective. For example: “I've been uneasy about your friend ever since I met him. Are you sure we can trust him?”

What is a short sentence with uneasy?

“He was behaving in an uneasy way.”

What does uneasy mean?

Uneasy means not easy; difficult.