Definition of "ill at ease" []

• Anxious; unsure; uneasy (adjective)
• Uncomfortable (adjective)

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• "For a moment the Terror of Kent had a glimpse of himself as others saw him — a dusty brown sparrow that had somehow got mixed up with migratory birds and was ill at ease and unhappy in the raw, red, sun-drenched countryside, far from his English lanes."
• "Because the too-deep armchairs were making him hot, he rose, wandered around the lobby, ill at ease in the midst of people speaking English who all had a reason to be there."
• "Even their ally the Aceribb appeared ill at ease with their arguing."