Definition of UNEASILY

Examples of uneasily in a Sentence

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As homelessness soars across the Bay Area, signs of abject poverty are becoming more evident on BART, where commuters mingle uneasily with transients seeking shelter on the trains. — Taylor Kate Brown, SFChronicle.com, "Bay Briefing: Fentanyl epidemic worsens in San Francisco," 24 June 2019 The doctor even ended up buying her a little bag of bonbons, Lucrécia was looking uneasily at the dark sky. — Benjamin Moser, Harper's magazine, "The Indirect World," 10 Apr. 2019 The larger issue is that Donald Trump’s unpredictably incendiary foreign policy sits uneasily with the principles of FOIP. — The Economist, "Asian countries fear China but many won’t side with America," 6 June 2019 After the screening and panel talk, guests departed uneasily from their seats out into the chilly New York night. — Lauren Sanchez, Vogue, "Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Vile and Evil," 3 May 2019 Umair Irfan/Vox Residents lived uneasily for years knowing that a massive conflagration was possible. — Umair Irfan, Vox, "The Paradise fire is catastrophic. And the wildfire threat to California is only growing.," 17 Nov. 2018 This from a man who lives, however uneasily, with a ruthlessness unknown to David Mamet’s real-estate agents. — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, "The Goofy and Dead-Serious Profundity of Bill Hader in “Barry”," 24 Mar. 2018 Friends and foes alike have labelled President Donald Trump a populist, but the moniker has always fitted him uneasily. — Jeet Heer, The New Republic, "Faux-populism in Duluth.," 21 June 2018 In 2018, such paragraphs, however subtle, can land uneasily. — Jocelyn Mcclurg, USA TODAY, "Who is 'Varina'? Novelist Charles Frazier makes the Confederacy's first lady a star," 3 Apr. 2018

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