The disquieting sounds of nearby gunfire. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : disquieting news. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used with object) : The news disquieted him. From Dictionary.com.
Reports on state of sugar industry 'disquieting'. From Wordnik.com. [Stabroek News] Reference
It is, Meese adds, "disquieting" that opponents of civil rights will have their bigotry exposed on video recordings. From Wordnik.com. [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference
"disquieting" and will require too much land acquisition and property purchase. From Wordnik.com. [CAMBRIDGETIMES - Home] Reference
For fear of disquieting him, she turned to other thoughts. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The Fall of 1994 was a disquieting time for President Clinton. From Wordnik.com. [His Adviser, And Her Guru] Reference
I broke it off with great force, ended with a disquieting whisper. From Wordnik.com. [The First Round] Reference
His most disquieting feature was the thing wrapped around his head. From Wordnik.com. [Speaking of Home] Reference
What I found most disquieting was that I was guilty of doing this, too. From Wordnik.com. [When ‘Goodbye’ Is A Click Away] Reference
Every detail in this serene, slightly disquieting place carries freight. From Wordnik.com. [Remembering The Witch Hunt's Victims] Reference
All of this raises a number of rather disquieting existential questions. From Wordnik.com. [Book Recommendations: Are They Worse Than Fixing Someone Up On A Date?] Reference
At this juncture, news of the gravest and most disquieting nature reached. From Wordnik.com. [Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings] Reference
Unfortunately, Harris is part of a disquieting minority in her age group. From Wordnik.com. [DIAGNOSIS: INTERNET PHOBIA] Reference
This disquieting intelligence was conveyed to me by Judge Tourgee himself. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922] Reference
But he included in this report false and disquieting statements regarding the. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915] Reference
The thought had struck too near her own disquieting thoughts to be comfortable. From Wordnik.com. [The Outdoor Girls at Wild Rose Lodge Or, the hermit of Moonlight falls] Reference
It was a quiet day -- until disquieting news arrived from a local health officer. From Wordnik.com. [Bill Frist] Reference
A guard in one of the outer shell storage holds called in with a disquieting report. From Wordnik.com. [Gold in the Sky] Reference
The drama's larger point -- that education fails to enlighten bigots -- is disquieting. From Wordnik.com. [Fern Siegel: Stage Door: Just in Time: The Judy Holliday Story, The Punishing Blow] Reference
Marjorie's disquieting reflections were interrupted by something the French girl was saying. From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie Dean, High School Freshman] Reference
This disquieting duet of high anxiety rests entirely on their shoulders, and they're superb. From Wordnik.com. [This Time, The Bad Guy Finishes First] Reference
Julia's talk is ever more extravagant even than her notions, but it was of a disquieting kind. From Wordnik.com. [A Sheaf of Corn] Reference
The reading scores of our nation's schoolchildren, though, tell another, more disquieting story. From Wordnik.com. [Mixed Grades in a New Education Report] Reference
She was aware of a marked acceleration of the pulse which to her temperament was far from disquieting. From Wordnik.com. [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference
A very disquieting symbol, grave danger of a sudden calamity; with other bad signs, a violent death. From Wordnik.com. [Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves] Reference
It was a new and unsuspected phase of Zara's character thus unfolded to me; and it was a most disquieting one. From Wordnik.com. [Princess Zara] Reference
There is one more disquieting similarity between then and now: the beginnings, at least, of a credibility gap. From Wordnik.com. [The Vietnam Question] Reference
What was especially disquieting was the location of the storefront: six blocks from the FBI's Miami headquarters. From Wordnik.com. [Periscope] Reference
So the question of who we really were and what our aspirations were, intellectual or social, was always disquieting. From Wordnik.com. [Money, Religion And Sex] Reference
In combatting Joel's incredulity, she was able to set at rest certain disquieting doubts of her own as to her sanity. From Wordnik.com. [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference
He made his court to the wife of the prefect, sufficiently to flatter the functionary without disquieting the husband. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Results "become less reliable with increasing popularity of the interacting proteins," something they find "disquieting.". From Wordnik.com. [Popular Science: Beware False Claims] Reference
So it was pretty disquieting to find out that the "far reaches of space" knew more about what went on at home than he did. From Wordnik.com. [The Quantum Jump] Reference
They're suitable now, that's for sure: her disquieting take on home life will still resonate when Martha Stewart is a memory. From Wordnik.com. [Demons In The Family] Reference
It was disquieting in some ways -- she could not quite explain why -- and just now she felt averse to wrestling with disturbing ideas. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Far End] Reference
The dark cloud was growing darker and darker every day, and each morning paper seemed to bring more disquieting news than the one before. From Wordnik.com. [The Outdoor Girls in Army Service Or, doing their bit for the soldier boys] Reference
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