uneasily

CEFRB2

/əˈnizəli/

adverb

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Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

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He looked around uneasily.
“Er...Feathered Omen, hoot not,” he continued uneasily, “Son of Tanit, hoot not!”

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“Er...Feathered Omen, hoot not,” he continued uneasily, “Son of Tanit, hoot not!”
1970, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 11
On once more we swung, bumping uneasily along in the antique narrow-gauge coach, with gloomy woods and gathering night outside, shouts and songs (and quacks) inside—this was not at all the sort of train ordained by the logical strategists in Paris—then grinding to a stop at a mysterious halt which was no more than a nameboard in the pinewoods, without even a footpath leading to it, but nevertheless with a solitary passenger stolidly waiting.
1961 November, H. G. Ellison, P. G. Barlow, “Journey through France: Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, page 668

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From uneasy + -ly.