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as in worried
feeling or showing uncomfortable feelings of uncertainty
plagued with an unquiet mind the whole time her son was stationed overseas
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as in restless
lacking or denying rest
an unquiet curiosity that impelled him to study the world about him relentlessly
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The decision is an outright and unbridled expression of my unquiet mind.
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Outside Online, 10 July 2024
The calamity at Waco, the shipwrecks of the Spanish Armada, unquiet literary unions, a new thriller from Sweden and more.
—Stephen Brumwell, WSJ, 27 Jan. 2023
Instead of providing an answer, Gleeson takes us into the unquiet mind of a man whose profound unhappiness is its own kind of life force.
—The New York Times Magazine, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2022
Something is certainly making Sutter’s unquiet spirit walk.
—Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2022
Around him unfolds the dull and hopeless work of a cubicle maze that forces otherwise potentially lovable people to live lives of unquiet desperation.
—Nathan Deuel, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2022
Charles Stewart Parnell, who championed the cause of Irish Home Rule, is the unquiet ghost who haunts the book.
—Fintan O’Toole, The Atlantic, 16 June 2022
With gentle humor, Flora’s visitations flip the racial script: rather than unquiet Natives rising from violated land, Erdrich conjures a busybody settler exasperating the Ojibwe living.
—Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2021
In the racist trope of the unquiet Indian in modern American horror, the dead are violent by default and stuck in a kind of death match with the living.
—Jo Livingstone, The New Republic, 29 Oct. 2021
Outside Online, 10 July 2024
The calamity at Waco, the shipwrecks of the Spanish Armada, unquiet literary unions, a new thriller from Sweden and more.
—Stephen Brumwell, WSJ, 27 Jan. 2023
Instead of providing an answer, Gleeson takes us into the unquiet mind of a man whose profound unhappiness is its own kind of life force.
—The New York Times Magazine, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2022
Something is certainly making Sutter’s unquiet spirit walk.
—Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2022
Around him unfolds the dull and hopeless work of a cubicle maze that forces otherwise potentially lovable people to live lives of unquiet desperation.
—Nathan Deuel, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2022
Charles Stewart Parnell, who championed the cause of Irish Home Rule, is the unquiet ghost who haunts the book.
—Fintan O’Toole, The Atlantic, 16 June 2022
With gentle humor, Flora’s visitations flip the racial script: rather than unquiet Natives rising from violated land, Erdrich conjures a busybody settler exasperating the Ojibwe living.
—Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2021
In the racist trope of the unquiet Indian in modern American horror, the dead are violent by default and stuck in a kind of death match with the living.
—Jo Livingstone, The New Republic, 29 Oct. 2021
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“Unquiet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unquiet. Accessed 30 Oct. 2024.
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