Verb (used with object), : His praise reassured me. From Dictionary.com.
It is unreassuring; it does not restore faith nor remove shame. From Wordnik.com. [Responsibility and accountability] Reference
"" Not now, '' came the decidedly unreassuring reply from her mom. From Wordnik.com. [Down The Aisle] Reference
Patrick was staring with unreassuring horror at Billy's straight lines. From Wordnik.com. [Flying Finish]
Here was a movie that painted the most excoriating, cynical, unreassuring portrait of the U.S. military imaginable. From Wordnik.com. [That Was Then, This Is Now] Reference
However, I boil down the apology to this one unreassuring statement: "At present, we have agreed to review both our policies and our enforcement procedures to ensure that we are acting both consistently and fairly.". From Wordnik.com. [Breastfeeding… LiveJournal: NO. Minti: YES. | Thingamababy] Reference
Couched thus, this creature yawned and disclosed unreassuring teeth. From Wordnik.com. [Figures of Earth] Reference
She knew now that, hour by hour, she had lived in the expectation of Guest's return; had felt an unreassuring conviction that he must come before she left!. From Wordnik.com. [Flaming June] Reference
Even to the most casual and uninterested outsider it was evident that already the metropolis was under a tension; that the tension was increasing almost imperceptibly day by day; that there seemed to be no very clear idea as to the reason of it, only a confused apprehension, an apparently unreassuring fear of some grotesque danger ahead, which daily reading of the newspapers was not at all calculated to allay. From Wordnik.com. [The Danger Mark] Reference
But the letter was oddly unreassuring. From Wordnik.com. [SplicedFeed] Reference
I found Geithner's remarks unreassuring. From Wordnik.com. [The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan] Reference
(Even presidents: his painting I Think I'll, which plays with the phrases "maybe" and "wait a minute", now hangs on the walls of Barack Obama's White House – a somewhat unreassuring thought, I find – and in July, during David Cameron's visit to Washington, President Obama presented him with a signed lithograph by Ruscha, Column With Speed Lines, chosen for its red, white and blue colours.) "Learning how to set type, that had a big effect on me," he says. From Wordnik.com. [Ed Ruscha: 'There's room for saying things in bright shiny colours'] Reference
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