UNEASILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does uneasily mean? 

• UNEASILY (adverb)
  The adverb UNEASILY has 1 sense:

1. with anxiety or apprehension

  Familiarity information: UNEASILY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNEASILY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

With anxiety or apprehension

Synonyms:

anxiously; apprehensively; uneasily

Context example:

we watched anxiously

Pertainym:

uneasy (lacking a sense of security or affording no ease or reassurance)

 Context examples 

"I have come for my brains," remarked the Scarecrow, a little uneasily.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

And so I slept uneasily and thought.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

While Wolf Larsen held his wrist he stirred uneasily, bowing his body so that for a moment it rested on shoulders and heels.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Womble stirred uneasily, feeling for the other the hatred one is prone to feel for one he has wronged.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

They swung out on the trail with remarkable lack of exertion, turned their heads uneasily, and stopped in surprise.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

I want to know; and when I awoke in the night, I found that I was uneasily asking all sorts of people in my dreams whether it really was or not—without knowing what I meant.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Gentlemen are sometimes seized with sudden fits of admiration for the young relatives of ladies whom they honor with their regard, but this counterfeit philoprogenitiveness sits uneasily upon them, and does not deceive anybody a particle.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I sat down by her, and presently she moved uneasily.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The latter’s cap came off after the custom of the sea, and he stood respectfully in the centre of the cabin, swaying heavily and uneasily to the roll of the schooner and facing the captain.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

But when I came to the second part of what had been entrusted to me, said Mr. Littimer, rubbing his hands uneasily, which anybody might have supposed would have been, at all events, appreciated as a kind intention, then the young woman came out in her true colours.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)