uncomfortably

adverb

as in uneasily

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Recent Examples of uncomfortably The New York Jets coach is struggling in his second season, sitting on a hot seat that gets more uncomfortably toasty with each tough loss. — ABC News, 2 Nov. 2026 Yet that ideal sits uncomfortably alongside the afterlives of slavery and empire. — Brooke N. Newman, The Conversation, 29 Oct. 2026 Markets—particularly Treasuries—shifted uncomfortably, with yields rising, following the July Federal Open Market Committee meeting, in part because Warsh had remained firmly against sharing any forward guidance. — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 28 Oct. 2026 With the national debt having just risen above £3 trillion, taking it uncomfortably close to the size of its GDP, the government is in no position for largesse. — Ian King, CNBC, 27 Oct. 2026 Unlike university, security here is almost uncomfortably overbearing. — Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 25 Oct. 2026 But that’s language carriage horse owners and drivers find uncomfortably imprecise. — Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 22 Oct. 2026 Amid the red hats, rock songs and energetic crowd, however, the president’s trip also illustrated that the Senate race in Kansas was uncomfortably close for Republicans. — Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 20 Oct. 2026 The students stirred uncomfortably at the clear breach of protocol. — Bob Woodward, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for uncomfortably
  1. uneasily
  2. anxiously
  3. apprehensively
  4. critically
Adverb
  • Nouns, verbs, adjectives, and slogans float uneasily near one another in different colors, fonts, and sizes.
    — Alec Mapes-Frances, Artforum, 1 Nov. 2026
  • For protesters, that record sits uneasily besides the prime minister’s denunciation of violence against women.
    — Amrita Basu, The Conversation, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of uneasily
Adverb
  • The young magicians hold hands, waiting anxiously as the results are announced.
    — Julie Bourdin, NPR, 25 Oct. 2026
  • Waiting anxiously on the edge of your seat for GTA VI to finally hit your PC?
    — Kelsey Fogarty, PC Magazine, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of anxiously
Adverb
  • This show of sweetness fighting back against a sense of hopelessness builds an apprehensively brighter perspective than earlier work.
    — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2025
Definition of apprehensively
Adverb
  • The stakes are existential for the mountain range’s mountain lions, which are contending with critically low genetic diversity as close relatives mate.
    — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2026
  • Two people were critically injured, and two were seriously hurt.
    — Ahmad Mukhtar, CBS News, 4 Nov. 2026
Definition of critically

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