- present participle of disquiet.
disquieting
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Disquieting as police drones are, you shouldn’t let their presence, and their symbolic powers of surveillance, intimidate you out of protesting, reporting, or other means of exercising your rights.
From Slate • Jul. 8, 2020
Disquieting to progressives was a Spartan trend toward calisthenics instead of games, military drill for boys, more homework, less music and art.
From Time Magazine Archive
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In a spirit of pardonable malice, Rubin reprints in the catalogue 18 versions of The Disquieting Muses, 1917, all done between 1945 and 1962.
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Disquieting rumors eddied through the quiet corridors of slick, Hearst-owned Town & Country.
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Disquieting visions of harsh prison punishments were oppressing me when we reached the penitentiary and I was taken before the eagle-eyed old Civil War veteran who had given me my parole.
From Branded by Lynde, Francis
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