[
UK
/ʌnkˈʌmftəbli/
]
[ US /ənˈkəmftəbɫi/ ]
[ US /ənˈkəmftəbɫi/ ]
ADVERB
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in physical discomfort
she lay on the couch, her body uncomfortably twisted
How To Use uncomfortably In A Sentence
- This is a movie with a distinct and startling cinematic language, but with uncomfortably coercive mannerisms.
- Meanwhile the enemy, desperate but still confident, poured in a heavy fire from his line and from a battery which enfiladed the Brook road, and made Yellow Tavern an uncomfortably hot place. She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories
- My nose is uncomfortably stuffed up.
- Despite advances in headphone design, the fact is you are still listening to glorified stereo, where the sounds appear to thump uncomfortably inside your head.
- Claire looked at her feet, shuffling uncomfortably in place.
- And the deadline for submitting the illustrations was getting uncomfortably close.
- While Mona stares uncomfortably into the horse's eye, Tamsin regards her with poised bemusement.
- I shifted slightly, uncomfortably; the chair was built for different proportions.
- So really just a bloke sitting uncomfortably on a hill. Times, Sunday Times
- With all due respect, I think that your perspective here is horribly simplistic, uncomfortably mis-targeted (to the point of near endorsement), and quite diversionary from the essential core issue. Oaxaca to Guadalajara: The good.. the bad.. & the ugly