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uneasily /ʌnˈiːzɪli /adverb1In a way that shows anxiety or discomfort: I shifted uneasily in my seat the men glanced uneasily at each other...- He laughed uneasily as he explained the methodology.
- When we arrived at the gate, we found several armed guards there, looking uneasily at our pack of escorts.
- A few of the customers look up uneasily from their menus.
2In a way that is awkward or incongruous: his personality sits uneasily with his origins quite luxurious enclaves coexist uneasily with slums and ghettos...- The range of provision was described as fragmentary, disjointed, and uneasily reliant on unpredictable, inadequate, or short-term funding streams.
- The feudal origins of modern land law include rights and obligations that rest uneasily within 21st-century concepts of human rights.
- It's a language that offers a safety valve against a discourse that oscillates uneasily between a strangulated avoidance of reality and an ugly violence.
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