disquiet
noun
lack of calm, peace, or ease; anxiety; uneasiness.
disquiets
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present tense formof disquiet (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Cromwell identifies: “I have travelled so far to get here, and nothing they do disturbs me now, nor disquiets me, high on my branch.”
From Slate ● Mar. 12, 2020
The Second Half, which is due in the autumn, is billed as a blend of "memoir and motivational writing in a manner which both disquiets and reassures, in Roy Keane's own original voice".
From BBC ● Jan. 17, 2014
I have seen Albine, and she disquiets me.
From Abbe Mouret's Transgression by Émile Zola
The Sulla of America are the people in their unconscientious moments, and unpopularity the proscription threatened which disquiets almost all public men with torturing apprehension.
From The Brothers' War by John Calvin Reed
"Very well, monsieur; but there is one point which disquiets me."
From The Forty-Five Guardsmen by Alexandre Dumas père
