unquiet
adjective
agitated; restless; disordered; turbulent.
unquietness
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a word derived from
unquiet.
Example Sentences
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"And how do you call it? Throwing, "aggressively" charging... what are they? Signs of friendship? Childish unquietness?"
From Economist ● Nov. 22, 2013
Now his Augustness, the August Child, the Conqueror, stood upon the Floating Bridge of Heaven and looked down, and he saw that there was a great unquietness upon the Land of the Reed Plains.
From Japanese Fairy Tales by Grace James
Sir 40:5 Wrath, and envy, trouble, and unquietness, fear of death, and anger, and strife, and in the time of rest upon his bed his night sleep, do change his knowledge.
From Deuterocanonical Books of the Bible Apocrypha by Anonymous
And though thou visitedst my sinfulness among With pestilent plagues and other unquietness, Yet never tookest thou from me the plenteousness Of thy godly spirit, which thou in me didst plant.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1 by William Carew Hazlitt
The apprehension of this and the uneasiness he was under with his irons made him pass his last moments with great unquietness and discontent.
From Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences by Arthur L. Hayward
