unassured
Example Sentences
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The passing mention of “civil war” is I believe an unnamed reference to the 1786 Shays’ rebellion which reminds us even from Justice Story’s 1837 vantage that our nation’s continued existence has often been unassured.
From Forbes ● May 12, 2015
When I said I would try she looked distressfully unassured and I added "I'll do whatever risks no life but mine."
From The Cavalier by George Washington Cable
Still unassured, the Old Man turned his glasses on the rocky group.
From The Brassbounder A Tale of the Sea by David W. Bone
When the answer came, it was strangely deprecatory, uncertain, unassured.
From Vera, the Medium by Richard Harding Davis
An hour passed, and still she sat unassured, restless of thought and conscious only that an encroaching darkness had obscured a vista on which her eyes had loved to dwell.
From Eden An Episode by Edgar Saltus
