unease
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Synonyms & Antonyms for unease
Synonyms
agita, agitation, anxiety, anxiousness, apprehension, apprehensiveness, care, concern, concernment, disquiet, disquietude, fear, nervosity, nervousness, perturbation, solicitude, sweat, uneasiness, worry
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The uncertainty is causing unease inside the Afghan government, which for the most part has been on the sidelines during negotiations. — Barnini Chakraborty, Fox News, "Taliban says agreement on U.S. troop withdrawal in Afghanistan is close," 29 Aug. 2019 Greenland officials have visited China to look for investors but Beijing's interest also has provoked political unease. — Anchorage Daily News, "World powers increasingly see the Arctic as a hot property," 22 Aug. 2019 Unlike season one, whose unease and dread grew slowly out of an atmosphere of stifling isolation, The Terror: Infamy plunges abruptly into the many-year nightmare of the internment camps. — Aja Romano, Vox, "The Terror: Infamy turns America’s WWII internment camps into a bleak ghost story," 19 Aug. 2019 Clashes with Abramovich over the signing of Andriy Shevchenko from AC Milan created a real sense of unease around Stamford Bridge, which ultimately cost him his job in September 2007. — SI.com, "Jose Mourinho: The 'Special One' Who Shattered Records All Over Europe," 6 Aug. 2019 The project in Brown County, which has so far failed to win local approval, highlights unease over the growing tide of animal waste in some regions of the state and how best to manage manure as dairy farms grow larger. — Lee Bergquist, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "Walker administration project to battle manure pollution has been hit by delays," 24 June 2019 That episode added to some outside unease about Naeher. — Steven Goff, courant.com, "US goalkeeper Alyssa Naeher, a Connecticut native, should face first real World Cup test vs. Sweden," 17 June 2019 But the arrest of Mr. Syroyezhkin, one of the former Soviet Union’s foremost China experts, on espionage charges exposes Kazakhstan’s growing unease over China’s clout, and its deepening sense of vulnerability sitting at the crossroads of Asia. — Thomas Grove, WSJ, "A Spy Case Exposes China’s Power Play in Central Asia," 10 July 2019 There were rumblings of unease on the Republican side as well. — Alana Abramson, Time, "Trump Drops Ratcliffe as Pick for Top Intelligence Job," 2 Aug. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'unease.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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