ill-ease

English

Noun

ill-ease (uncountable)

  1. A feeling or state of uneasiness; a lack of comfort or surety; discomfort or anxiousness.
    • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, 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.
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