unquiet
adjective
agitated; restless; disordered; turbulent.
unquietly
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a word derived from
unquiet.
Example Sentences
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He wasn’t one of those bullies striving for importance through his child, sitting unquietly in a courtside box with his mouth tight with tension, killing a young spirit with dissatisfied glances.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 25, 2015
Peiji, who made his way to Taiwan with the retreating KMT, lives very unquietly in neon-struck Taipei.
From Time Magazine Archive
Frodo slept unquietly, turning and tossing, and sometimes murmuring.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
Kyemlich looked again unquietly on Kmita, for he thought that surely a fever was seizing him if he asked to have the same information repeated; still he answered,— "Besieged by Pan Sapyeha."
From The Deluge, Vol. II. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. by Henryk Sienkiewicz
Sophy felt strangely and rather unquietly happy—as if something were going to happen.
From Shadows of Flames A Novel by Amélie Rives
