unnerving
Example Sentences
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Critics say the strikes amount to extrajudicial killings and are unnerving U.S. allies who are increasingly wary of sharing intelligence.
Yet it is deeply unnerving to experience this scene, knowing that the main protagonist will have little to no memory of it, even as it lives on in the heads of hundreds of audience members.
From New York Times
But the attack Sunday was so unnerving that he doesn’t really have a taste for it anymore.
From Los Angeles Times
Alliance Party leader Naomi Long, whose effigy was among those hanging from the bonfire, described it as "unnerving and disturbing".
From BBC
Such words have an unnerving echo in our era.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
