ADJECTIVE
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socially uncomfortable; unsure and constrained in manner
awkward and reserved at parties
was always uneasy with strangers
ill at ease among eddies of people he didn't know
How To Use ill at ease In A Sentence
- With two children bedridden the mother was ill at ease.
- And I think this is one of the major things that makes people ill at ease and uncomfortable'. Times, Sunday Times
- The boy was ill at ease in the presence of the headmaster.
- When one feels unsteady or when it might make a shorter partner feel ill at ease. Times, Sunday Times
- Chopra had felt ill at ease since entering the strange domain.
- The dark elf seemed ill at ease among the buildings, and clung close to One Nine's shaggy thigh.
- With a sprinkling of new players still bedding in, they looked ill at ease in the face of a familiar, and formidable, United side.
- He always felt shy and ill at ease at parties.
- Kathy fidgeted beside him, studying her nails, ill at ease among these obvious geeks and losers.
- But he seemed ill at ease in Liszt's flamboyant Spanish Rhapsody, which in his hands wanted for inflection, contrast and affective intensity.
