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形容詞

unsettling (comparative more unsettling, superlative most unsettling)

1. That makes one troubled or uneasy; disquieting or distressing.
   • April 5 2022, Tina Brown, “How Princess Diana’s Dance With the Media Impacted William and Harry”, in Vanity Fair‎:

     More unsettling was the origin story of the infamous tell-all book Princess in Love. Diana claimed to be outraged in 1994 when Daily Express journalist Anna Pasternak spilled the beans of her affair with former army officer James Hewitt […]

     adapted from the book The Palace Papers, published 2022 by Penguin Books

派生語

名詞

unsettling (plural unsettlings)

1. The weakening of some previously established system or norm.
   • 1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 305:

     A farmer in Hampshire was sorely distressed by the unsettling of his barn. However straightly over-night he laid his sheaves on the threshing-floor for the application of the morning's flail, when morning came, all was topsy-turvy, higgledy-piggledy, though the door remained locked, and there was no sign whatever of irregular entry.

   • 2013, Krishna Sen, Maila Stivens, Gender and Power in Affluent Asia, page 19:

     But reconstructing theory has proved more problematic than feminists might have hoped, even as their efforts played an important if sometimes overlooked part in post-modern unsettlings of theories in the West.

動詞

unsettling

1. present participle and gerund of unsettle