When we arrived at the gate, we found several armed guards there, looking uneasily at our pack of escorts.
He laughed uneasily as he explained the methodology.
I wondered uneasily if the brakes were power assisted or not.
A few of the customers look up uneasily from their menus.
He glanced uneasily at Catherine's tightly clenched fist.
2In a way that is awkward or incongruous.
his personality sits uneasily with his origins
quite luxurious enclaves coexist uneasily with slums and ghettos
Example sentencesExamples
His beliefs often clashed uneasily with his role as an employer of labour.
The range of provision was described as fragmentary, disjointed, and uneasily reliant on unpredictable, inadequate, or short-term funding streams.
It's a language that offers a safety valve against a discourse that oscillates uneasily between a strangulated avoidance of reality and an ugly violence.
Its theatre run was uneasily slotted between Lady Windermere's Fan and The Second Mrs Tanqueray.
The feudal origins of modern land law include rights and obligations that rest uneasily within 21st-century concepts of human rights.
Definition of uneasily in US English:
uneasily
adverbˌənˈizɪliˌənˈēzilē
1In a way that shows anxiety or discomfort.
I shifted uneasily in my seat
the men glanced uneasily at each other
Example sentencesExamples
He glanced uneasily at Catherine's tightly clenched fist.
A few of the customers look up uneasily from their menus.
He laughed uneasily as he explained the methodology.
I wondered uneasily if the brakes were power assisted or not.
When we arrived at the gate, we found several armed guards there, looking uneasily at our pack of escorts.
2In a way that is awkward or incongruous.
his personality sits uneasily with his origins
quite luxurious enclaves coexist uneasily with slums and ghettos
Example sentencesExamples
It's a language that offers a safety valve against a discourse that oscillates uneasily between a strangulated avoidance of reality and an ugly violence.
Its theatre run was uneasily slotted between Lady Windermere's Fan and The Second Mrs Tanqueray.
The range of provision was described as fragmentary, disjointed, and uneasily reliant on unpredictable, inadequate, or short-term funding streams.
The feudal origins of modern land law include rights and obligations that rest uneasily within 21st-century concepts of human rights.
His beliefs often clashed uneasily with his role as an employer of labour.