Uneasily

adv

adv ·4 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    In an uneasy manner.

    "On once more we swung, bumping uneasily along in the antique narrow-gauge coach, with gloomy woods and gathering night outside, shouts and songs (and quacks) inside—this was not at all the sort of train ordained by the logical strategists in Paris—then grinding to a stop at a mysterious halt which was no more than a nameboard in the pinewoods, without even a footpath leading to it, but nevertheless with a solitary passenger stolidly waiting."

Adverb
  1. 1
    with anxiety or apprehension wordnet

Example

More examples

"He shifted about uneasily in his chair."

Etymology

From uneasy + -ly.

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