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Recent Examples of uncomfortably
Aside from technical glitches, there was uncomfortably dead air and forced improv.
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Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 8 Jan. 2026
What once read as moral conviction can, from another angle, start to look uncomfortably like a savior complex.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 6 Jan. 2026
Jisulife 3-in-1 Handheld Mini Fan Taxiing planes can quickly get uncomfortably hot and stuffy.
—Amelia McBride, Travel + Leisure, 6 Jan. 2026
The animal was caught in the bear bile industry in Vietnam, which meant Robinson spent most of her life in a cage, having her bile regularly and uncomfortably extracted.
—Kelli Bender, PEOPLE, 5 Jan. 2026
The film blends satire, excess and immigrant ambition into something that feels both absurd and uncomfortably familiar.
—Ana Gutierrez, Austin American Statesman, 5 Jan. 2026
Hearing the joke in the documentary makes Chase laugh uncomfortably.
—Erin Jensen, USA Today, 2 Jan. 2026
Denim jeans or shorts, for example, tend to become uncomfortably stiff if laid or hung to dry after going through the washing machine.
—Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Dec. 2025
The scaly lizard-like race of the Drac plainly acts as a generic symbol of any misunderstood or aggressive adversary with a culture, agenda, or ideology that happens to clash with our own and feels uncomfortably foreign.
—Jeff Spry, Space.com, 20 Dec. 2025
Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 8 Jan. 2026
What once read as moral conviction can, from another angle, start to look uncomfortably like a savior complex.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 6 Jan. 2026
Jisulife 3-in-1 Handheld Mini Fan Taxiing planes can quickly get uncomfortably hot and stuffy.
—Amelia McBride, Travel + Leisure, 6 Jan. 2026
The animal was caught in the bear bile industry in Vietnam, which meant Robinson spent most of her life in a cage, having her bile regularly and uncomfortably extracted.
—Kelli Bender, PEOPLE, 5 Jan. 2026
The film blends satire, excess and immigrant ambition into something that feels both absurd and uncomfortably familiar.
—Ana Gutierrez, Austin American Statesman, 5 Jan. 2026
Hearing the joke in the documentary makes Chase laugh uncomfortably.
—Erin Jensen, USA Today, 2 Jan. 2026
Denim jeans or shorts, for example, tend to become uncomfortably stiff if laid or hung to dry after going through the washing machine.
—Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Dec. 2025
The scaly lizard-like race of the Drac plainly acts as a generic symbol of any misunderstood or aggressive adversary with a culture, agenda, or ideology that happens to clash with our own and feels uncomfortably foreign.
—Jeff Spry, Space.com, 20 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for uncomfortably
Adverb
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Both sit uneasily in a politics that treats freedom as self-executing.—
Philip Martin,
Washington Post,
7 Jan. 2026
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John of John, Stuart’s third novel, follows a closeted young art student returning to his childhood home in Scotland’s Hebrides islands, where his unwell grandmother and conservative lay preacher father live uneasily under the same roof.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 Jan. 2026
Adverb
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Year after year, Disneyland fans anxiously awaited an announcement that never came.—
Brady MacDonald,
Oc Register,
13 Jan. 2026
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There’s no worse feeling than anxiously waiting to be reunited with your luggage.—
Liz Provencher,
Travel + Leisure,
11 Jan. 2026
Adverb
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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
Adverb
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More than a century of overfishing, industrialization, and hatchery mismanagement has brought several populations of salmon and their close relative the steelhead to critically low levels in the Pacific Northwest.—
Katherine J. Wu,
The Atlantic,
7 Jan. 2026
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At the same time, retirement savings remain critically important, especially with the questions surrounding the sustainability of Social Security benefits.—
Angelica Leicht,
CBS News,
7 Jan. 2026
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“Uncomfortably.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uncomfortably. Accessed 15 Jan. 2026.
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