unquiet
adjective
literary us
/ʌnˈkwaɪət/ uk
/ʌnˈkwaɪət/Meaning of unquiet in English
(Definition of unquiet from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of unquiet
unquiet
We have this way of believing that if we can just change our world from the outside, it will settle the unquiet on the inside.
From Huffington Post
This unquiet feeling increases as the hue progresses, and it may be safely assumed, that a carpet of a perfectly pure deep blue-red would be intolerable.
From The Atlantic
It's already begun to be unquiet there--some arrests have been made, a teacher was taken.
From Project Gutenberg
I glanced at the stern contour of his face, the unquiet glance of his eye, and chose to believe the latter.
From Project Gutenberg
He tried to picture to the major the happy future which was awaiting him but still the major was unquiet and absent-minded.
From Project Gutenberg
A formidable disturbing element he and his company would have been in the already unquiet community.
From Project Gutenberg
But his dream was unquiet, not like that which should come from the calm sleep of the sultry summer's afternoon.
From Project Gutenberg
It is this unquiet love of self that renders us so sensitive.
From Project Gutenberg
And with her sped her old enemy—the specter dread of losing him—the ghost so easily started from its unquiet grave.
From Project Gutenberg
The remainder of the afternoon passed in tragic unquiet.
From Project Gutenberg
The scenes of the past blended confusedly with visions of the future, and it was nearly morning when he fell into an unquiet slumber.
From Project Gutenberg
The latter created no little unquiet by the zeal and strength of his support.
From Project Gutenberg
They were the representatives of an unquiet period, when mankind is seeking to cast off the whole tissue of ancient custom like a tattered garment.
From Project Gutenberg
Doctors call it paresis, and say that it is a new disease, a visitation of nature upon us for our artificial, unquiet lives.
From Project Gutenberg
From below came the droning of the unquiet streets.
From Project Gutenberg
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