ill-ease
English
Noun
ill-ease (uncountable)
- A feeling or state of uneasiness; a lack of comfort or surety; discomfort or anxiousness.
- 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, Sydney: Ure Smith, published 1962, page 81:
- Alarm brought Bradly over to glare down at Podson, bristling up his beard at him. Podson glanced at Bradly, and away from him, and rasped his shoulder-blades; manifesting these symptoms of ill-ease over a spiritual quandary.