ill at ease
Speech parts
1. ill at ease - Adjective
2. ill at ease - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
socially uncomfortable; unsure and constrained in manner
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The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.
[Nietzsche] attributes to himself an extremely vivid and sensitive instinct of cleanliness. At the first contact the filth lying at the base of another's nature is revealed to him. The unclean are therefore ill at ease hi his presence.
Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
I felt ill at ease with all this air about me, lost before the confusion of innumerable prospects.
Women's eyes are rapid in detecting a heart which is ill at ease with itself, and, knowing the value of sympathy, and finding their own greatest happiness not in receiving it, but in giving it, with them to be unhappy is at once to be interesting.