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"Uneasy" is used by writers to evoke a multifaceted sense of discomfort that oscillates between internal apprehension and external forewarning. In Chekhov [1], the anticipation of a ship’s return unsettles an entire community, while Conrad [2] uses the silence of a bush to hint at unspoken terror. This term also captures personal disquiet amid failing plans, as seen with the cautious character in Dostoyevsky [3] and again when internal struggles and external threats converge in his work [4]. Dickens [5, 6] employs "uneasy" to describe both a physical restlessness and a deeper state of emotional turmoil, a quality that authors like Austen [7], Eliot [8, 9], and others harness to reflect the complex interplay between external circumstances and inner vulnerability."
  1. As the time had approached for the return of the ship, many of the citizens had begun to feel uneasy.
    — from Project Gutenberg Compilation of Short Stories by Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
  2. The consciousness of there being people in that bush, so silent, so quiet—as silent and quiet as the ruined house on the hill—made me uneasy.
    — from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
  3. “Tell me, but I trust that you...” “Oh, don’t be uneasy.
    — from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  4. But I don’t think there is any considerable danger here, and you really need not be uneasy for they never go very far.
    — from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  5. Through all these rapid visions, there ran an undefined, uneasy consciousness of pain, which wearied and tormented him incessantly.
    — from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
  6. Now does Sir Leicester become worse, restless, uneasy, and in great pain.
    — from Bleak House by Charles Dickens
  7. Her sisters were uneasy for her, but her mother was delighted.
    — from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
  8. I shall feel as uneasy as a new sheared sheep when she's gone from me.
    — from Adam Bede by George Eliot
  9. "She might have got some power over him in time, and she was always uneasy about the estate.
    — from Middlemarch by George Eliot

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