unsettling
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]unsettling (comparative more unsettling, superlative most unsettling)
- That makes one troubled or uneasy; disquieting or distressing.
- April 5 2022, Tina Brown, “How Princess Diana’s Dance With the Media Impacted William and Harry”, in Vanity Fair[1]:
- More unsettling was the origin story of the infamous tell-all book Princess in Love. Diana claimed to be outraged in 1994 when Daily Express journalist Anna Pasternak spilled the beans of her affair with former army officer James Hewitt […]
Translations
[edit]That makes one troubled or uneasy
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Verb
[edit]unsettling
- present participle and gerund of unsettle
Noun
[edit]unsettling (plural unsettlings)
- The weakening of some previously established system or norm.
- 2013, Krishna Sen, Maila Stivens, Gender and Power in Affluent Asia, page 19:
- But reconstructing theory has proved more problematic than feminists might have hoped, even as their efforts played an important if sometimes overlooked part in post-modern unsettlings of theories in the West.