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UK
/ʌnˈiːz/
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[ US /əˈniz/ ]
[ US /əˈniz/ ]
NOUN
- physical discomfort (as mild sickness or depression)
- the trait of seeming ill at ease
How To Use unease In A Sentence
- There is a great deal of public unease. Times, Sunday Times
- Flashback sequences, talking dogs and stuttering pictures add to the general air of unease which the film carries.
- Lia could feel a familiar weight reside within her chest, an overwhelming sense of unease overcoming her.
- They had also failed to grasp public unease about the growing pressure on jobs and public services. Times, Sunday Times
- A sense of unease and foreboding quickly descended on the crowded chamber, followed by a hush minutes later when confirmation came through of what had happened.
- He felt a curious mixture of elation and unease.
- O'Driscoll does a great job of sketching out the characters, their relationships and filling their miserable lives with the kind of dread and unease that you can almost taste at the back of your tongue but when it comes time to move this story out of 'grim social realism' and into 'Horror' it all rather falls apart amidst random snowmen, which is a real pity as up until that ending, the story was going great guns. REVIEW: Black Static #16
- Growing unease at the prospect of an election is causing fierce arguments within the party.
- For just a moment Silver felt a prickle of unease about her choice of this man, but it was too late for doubts now.
- I know little of my family's roots, a fact that causes a nagging sense of unease.