unreassuring
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a word derived from
reassuring.
reassuringadjectiverestoring or boosting confidence, certainty, or security.
Example Sentences
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I heard unreassuring blanket assurances that matters of technological security were, of course, being considered along the way.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 7, 2017
The replies to Hammarskjold's questions were lengthy and unreassuring.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Maybe the plane's engines can really be repaired in mid-flight, as the unreassuring metaphor has it.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The Admiralty told him to use his own judgment and wished him an unreassuring "good luck."
From Time Magazine Archive
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Couched thus, this creature yawned and disclosed unreassuring teeth.
From Figures of Earth by James Branch Cabell