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Uncomfortable   /ənkˈəmfərtəbəl/   Listen
Uncomfortable

adjective
1.
Conducive to or feeling mental discomfort.  "The uncomfortable truth" , "Grew uncomfortable beneath his appraising eye" , "An uncomfortable way of surprising me just when I felt surest" , "The teacher's presence at the conference made the child very uncomfortable"
2.
Providing or experiencing physical discomfort.  "An uncomfortable day in the hot sun"



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"Uncomfortable" Quotes from Famous Books



... has its self-made men, but usually they are made to feel very uncomfortable. They are accounted intruders in circles reserved for the choicer few. But in America they are assured of a sympathetic audience when they tell of the way they have risen in the world. There is no need for them to apologize for any lack of early advantages, for they are living in a self-made country. ...
— Humanly Speaking • Samuel McChord Crothers

... time, which has never been employed in the full integrity of tasteful elegance; and thus to break the spell, by which the whole realm of fancy has long been bewitched. An absurd and inconvenient practice, which is almost peculiar to this country, of attending public places in that uncomfortable condition, which is technically called being dressed, but which is in truth, especially in females, being more or less naked and undressed, might more easily be dispensed with by day, and on that account, and for many other reasons, it would be less ...
— The Mirror Of Literature, Amusement, And Instruction, No. 391 - Vol. 14, No. 391, Saturday, September 26, 1829 • Various

... chair too small for his huge bulk in front of the fire, and sat, looking huddled and uncomfortable, his feet drawn up beneath his chair, his knees dropped, staring ...
— Mrs. Day's Daughters • Mary E. Mann

... here tomorrow morning, I'll send you home after it," that sophisticated supervisor of juveniles replied. And with this uncomfortable fact ever in his mind, he set out on the ...
— A Son of the City - A Story of Boy Life • Herman Gastrell Seely

... of boys before Desmond could reply. John looked uncomfortable. Then Desmond burst out ...
— The Hill - A Romance of Friendship • Horace Annesley Vachell


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