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Definition of uneasily adverb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

uneasily

adverb
 
/ʌnˈiːzɪli/
 
/ʌnˈiːzɪli/
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  1. in a way that shows you feel worried or unhappy about a particular situation, especially because you think that something bad or unpleasant may happen or because you are not sure that what you are doing is right synonym anxiously
    • I wondered uneasily what he was thinking.
    • She shifted uneasily in her chair.
  2. in a way that does not enable you to relax or feel comfortable
    • She had slept uneasily that night.
  3. in a way that does not go together well with something else
    • His socialist views sit uneasily with his huge fortune.
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