Definition of uneasily
: in an uneasy manner
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Outside the Caribbean, too, Bailey’s equivocation sits uneasily.
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They are often shown walking uneasily through public spaces, weighed down by their thoughts.
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An affluent cohort wonders uneasily what becomes of their nannies’ children and their nannies’ lives while the nannies tend to theirs.
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The viewer is made too privy to how, in this rendering, Mr. Pacino suspends the work uneasily between theater and cinema.
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If there’s a reason The Americans rests uneasily alongside other antihero dramas in its weight class, maybe this is why.
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At other times, the comedy bumps uneasily against the actual horrors of the regime — the head of a firing squad stops murdering prisoners mid-queue, when his whimsical orders change.
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Gillan is delightful too as an awkward loner uneasily recast as the ensemble's resident babe, even if the script falls into the icky middle ground of both mocking and perpetuating a sexist stereotype.
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At many of these archaeological digs, science coexists uneasily with fable.
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First Known Use of uneasily
14th century
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