: mental or spiritual discomfort: such as
a
: vague dissatisfaction : misgiving
c
: lack of ease (as in social relations) : embarrassment
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Examples of unease in a Sentence
A feeling of unease came over her.
They noticed increasing signs of unease among the workers.
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The practice of expanding private-label brands beyond their originating retailer grew more common from 2008 to 2012, and the trend tends to emerge in times of economic unease, Gielens said.
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Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 6 May 2024
And when this pair heads back with an embarrassingly naive notion of how to persuade the reserved Takumi to sign on to the project, our sense of where this next confrontation could lead creates all kinds of unease.
—Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2024
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Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 6 May 2024
And when this pair heads back with an embarrassingly naive notion of how to persuade the reserved Takumi to sign on to the project, our sense of where this next confrontation could lead creates all kinds of unease.
—Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2024
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“Unease.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unease. Accessed 10 May. 2024.
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