/ English Dictionary

UNEASILY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adverb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

With anxiety or apprehension

Example:

we watched anxiously

Synonyms:

anxiously; apprehensively; uneasily

Classified under:

Adverbs

Pertainym:

uneasy (lacking a sense of security or affording no ease or reassurance)

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 Context examples: 

I had perception enough to know that my mother was the victim always; that she was afraid to speak to me or to be kind to me, lest she should give them some offence by her manner of doing so, and receive a lecture afterwards; that she was not only ceaselessly afraid of her own offending, but of my offending, and uneasily watched their looks if I only moved.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

If he left the room for a minute she'd look around uneasily and say "Where's Tom gone?" and wear the most abstracted expression until she saw him coming in the door.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

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