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UK
/ʌnkwˈaɪət/
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ADJECTIVE
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characterized by unrest or disorder
unquiet days of riots
spent an unquiet night tossing and turning
following the assassination of Martin Luter King ours was an unquiet nation -
causing or fraught with or showing anxiety
spent an anxious night waiting for the test results
cast anxious glances behind her
those nervous moments before takeoff
an unquiet mind
How To Use unquiet In A Sentence
- It is hard to avoid the conclusion that Harris' theoretical commitments are designed to explain away a feminine side that perhaps even today troubles an unquiet virility.
- It's also fair to say that I would nonetheless like a companion to share it with, and that in my more unquiet moments I get annoyed with myself for what seems like a superfluous desire; after all, I don't need a partner to make me happy.
- Are unquiet spirits returning from the grave to haunt the living, screwing up your picnic plans?
- She prowled the night like an unquiet spirit.
- Kullak utters words of warning to the "unquiet" sex regarding the habitual neglect of the bass. Chopin : the Man and His Music
- We have marked, too, that these fish would besport themselves in their new homes, secluding themselves in the shadows of the trees and banks; and, as the summer heats come on, they would grow unquiet; the outlets leading to the great river they had left would be The Hive of "The Bee-Hunter," A Repository of Sketches, Including Peculiar American Character, Scenery, and Rural Sports
- following the assassination of Martin Luter King ours was an unquiet nation
- The quiet precinct of the church - yard becomes an unquiet sea of death in which the sleep of the rude Forefathers, forever laid ‘each in his narrow cell,’ seems vexed by a restlessness that will severely tax the poet's resources.
- It ushered in an unquiet century of warfare, the bloodiest since the thirty years war which had destroyed central Europe three centuries earlier.
- Cyrus is after another unquiet soul to add to what looks like a spectral petting zoo in the basement of his state - of-the-art glass mansion.