uncomfortably

adverb

as in uneasily

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Recent Examples of uncomfortably Forecasters say there will be little relief for Southern Californians when the sun goes down as temperatures will remain uncomfortably warm at night. — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2026 But the methods used in the show’s sting operations, as depicted here, uncomfortably skirt the dubious boundaries of entrapment. — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2026 Category 4 Hurricane Lowell is forecast to turn northward over the weekend and take a path uncomfortably close to Kauai on Labor Day. — Doyle Rice, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2026 In a country that has suffered from the state’s abuse of power and wealth since the 1960s, this pattern of control is uncomfortably familiar. — Jesse Marks, Foreign Affairs, 31 Aug. 2026 But analysts widely view the program as an attempt to drive down uncomfortably high bond rates, long a goal of Bessent’s. — Matt Egan, CNN Money, 27 Aug. 2026 The Federal Reserve’s preferred measure of inflation has remained above 3% since early this year, uncomfortably above the central bank's target. — ABC News, 25 Aug. 2026 The economy is growing, employment is relatively stable, and inflation is uncomfortably high though not out of control. — Howard Gleckman, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2026 Zuckerberg positions Meta’s commitment to open-source as critical to challenging Chinese open-source models from DeepSeek and Moonshot which have been getting uncomfortably close to the American frontier. — Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for uncomfortably
  1. uneasily
  2. anxiously
  3. apprehensively
  4. critically
Adverb
  • The company’s twin values of work and quirk can sit uneasily in the distractible, self-serious fashion world, to the point that fashion at Hermès has historically been regarded as something of an oxymoron.
    — Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2026
  • This oversharing of small details exists uneasily alongside a surprising lack of reflection on the book’s ostensible themes.
    — Matthew Walther, The Atlantic, 20 July 2026
Definition of uneasily
Adverb
  • Nelza Moktan anxiously sought information about her missing cousin, who also worked as a driver in Rasuwa.
    — Victoria Milko, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2026
  • Instead, he’s spent August anxiously watching the orange skies from his house in the northern Nevada hills through two consecutive and adjacent wild-land fires, the Bug and Hawk Fires.
    — Anya Kamenetz, Curbed, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of anxiously
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  • 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
  • Those who survived lost their safe haven and, critically, their training camps, and were forced to flee.
    — Daniel Byman, Foreign Affairs, 8 Sep. 2026
  • The Sumatran tiger, classified as critically endangered by the United Nations and conservation groups, is found only on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, which is slightly larger than Sweden.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of critically

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“Uncomfortably.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uncomfortably. Accessed 10 Sep. 2026.

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