unsettle
Example Sentences
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Ian Littleworth’s Happy, the dissolute son always looking for an easy way out, seems unsettled not only in his bearings but in his command of the script.
From Los Angeles Times
Others were more sympathetic but still unsettled by what he was doing not only to himself but also to his teenage children, who will have to deal with the ugly reactions of social-media ghouls.
For, screaming children aside, All Hallows’ Eve was already a most unsettling time.
From Literature
That also has unsettling contextual implications that the writers can’t gloss over.
From Salon
Creepy ring iconography crowded my consciousness: the unsettling surveillance of Amazon ring devices.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
