unquiet

IPA: ʌnkwˈaɪʌt

verb

  • (now rare) To disturb, disquiet.

adjective

  • Uneasy and restless; unable to settle.
  • Causing or associated with unease or restlessness.
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Examples of "unquiet" in Sentences

  • From the unquiet grave the suicide's ghost visits the beloved LIII .
  • At any rate, the unquiet times closed the opera, not its Frenchness I think.
  • The Unquiet Earth is a novel written from the perspective of multiple narrators.
  • The title The Unquiet Grave is taken from an English folk song of the same name.
  • But my preferred writing soundtrack is actually pretty varied, and pretty unquiet.
  • Still, there is always the acting, and McKellen gives superb value as this unquiet Don.
  • Kullak utters words of warning to the "unquiet" sex regarding the habitual neglect of the bass.
  • And his skills with the unquiet dead are virtually moot in balance with his indifference towards the unquiet living.
  • The rushed feeling sometimes comes from a nervous unquiet which is inherited, and should be trained out of the child.
  • When you have asked conscience a question be silent, and wait for an answer; even in unquiet times keep you spirits calm and quiet.
  • At the outbreak of the war, he had been on another vessel going from London to New York and he recalled the unquiet nights, the days of anxious vigilance, searching the sea and the atmosphere, fearing from one moment to another the appearance of a periscope upon the waters, or the electric warning of a steamer torpedoed by the submarine.
  • After then wearying and fatiguing myself with grasping shadows, whilst that most sensible part of me disdain'd to content itself with less than realities, the strong yearnings, the urgent struggles of nature towards the melting relief, and the extreme self-agitations I had used to come at it, had wearied and thrown me into a kind of unquiet sleep: for, if
  • After then wearying and fatiguing myself with grasping shadows, whilst that most sensible part of me disdained to content itself with less than realities, the strong yearnings, the urgent struggles of nature towards the melting relief, and the extreme self-agitations I had used to come at it, had wearied and thrown me into a kind of unquiet sleep: for, if I tossed and threw about my limbs in proportion to the distraction of my dreams, as I had reason to believe I did, a bystander could not have helped seeing all for love.

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