uneasily

adverb

Definition of uneasilynext
as in uncomfortably

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Recent Examples of uneasily This creator play and this legacy play seem to fit together … uneasily. — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 21 May 2026 This extreme trust sits uneasily against an extreme paranoia about our gadgets. — Nate Anderson, ArsTechnica, 14 May 2026 Anthropic and OpenAI are dancing uneasily with the Pentagon, and neither has come off better for it. — Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 14 May 2026 The chef Hillary Sterling’s cooking is too good for this restaurant’s uneasily generic address, in what is effectively an outdoor mall near Hudson Yards. — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 11 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for uneasily
Recent Examples of Synonyms for uneasily
  1. uncomfortably
  2. anxiously
  3. apprehensively
  4. warily
  5. critically
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  • The most prominent melodies tend to juggle only two or three notes at a time, often over uncomfortably close intervals.
    — Sasha Geffen, Pitchfork, 2 Aug. 2026
  • There is a national shortage; a physician fired for speaking uncomfortably will have another offer within weeks.
    — Sachin H. Jain, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
Definition of uncomfortably
Adverb
  • Your family and pets anxiously wait outside for the firefighters, counting on the heroes that will soon discover the source of smoke and save your home.
    — Letters to the Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 1 Aug. 2026
  • Fans of Jackie, one half of the avian power couple whom thousands of people regularly view via live webcams near their nest, have since anxiously waited for news.
    — Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 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
  • Livestream videos from that night capture people warily approaching the shooting scene.
    — Sydney Brownstone, NPR, 2 Aug. 2026
  • The situation can leave a Gen Xer to watch their retirement fund warily.
    — Kevin Williams, CNBC, 26 July 2026
Definition of warily
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  • Fourteen people were injured — two critically — in the blaze and taken to local hospitals.
    — Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 5 Aug. 2026
  • Perhaps more critically, Mistral’s AI models also aren’t currently competitive with the bleeding-edge American AI systems from Anthropic, OpenAI, or Google DeepMind, or even models from some Chinese AI powers.
    — Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of critically

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