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/dɪskwˈaɪətɪd/
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ADJECTIVE
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afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief
too upset to say anything
worried parents
a worried frown
spent many disquieted moments
distressed about her son's leaving home
one last worried check of the sleeping children
lapsed into disturbed sleep
How To Use disquieted In A Sentence
- So I feel very disquieted by any suggestion that this is a memoir showing people how possible it is to make the most of a bad start, how to love parents who have behaved atrociously, how to somehow miraculously rise above trauma out of sheer good will. The Glass Castle « Tales from the Reading Room
- Their findings disquieted the Dundee support.
- As long as thou livest thou art subject to change, howsoever unwilling; so that thou art found now joyful, now sad; now at peace, now disquieted; now devout, now indevout; now studious, now careless; now sad, now cheerful. XXXIII. Book III: On Inward Consolation. Of Instability of the Heart, and of directing the Aim toward God
- Obviously he felt disquieted by the procedure and felt that it would have been possible for him to have protected the complainants adequately had the normal process of cross-examination proceeded.
- In truth, his encounter with Toby Addington had disquieted him.
- I am a little disquieted by the fact that, in the case of the Army at least, the aid is disbursed through the military command structure.
- Many people were disquieted about the macho posturing about the fire-fighters.
- But when he reached gallantly to kiss my hand and I first looked into the eyes of General Eduard Rinaldi I was disquieted.
- I stole the signatures from stories that disquieted me.
- Given that, are you in any way disquieted by your certainty that we should withdraw?