The word 'uneasily' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a feeling of anxiety or unease such as feeling worried or uncomfortable about something. For example: She watched her daughter uneasily as she drove away.
Such parental advice sits uneasily with the notion of undoing past wrongs that lies at the heart of transitional justice, whereby nations move from committing gross and systematic human rights violations to democracy.
A further comic element is supplied by the antics of a Russian oil tanker, which is quite by coincidence shuffling back and forth uneasily just outside Swedish territorial waters in a position from which it might rescue, or have launched, a miniature submarine.
"I don't want to sit here and say: 'I blame my mum,'" she starts, uneasily.
The shadow of Macaulay Culkin rests uneasily and the showbiz parent attracts bad press in a town where embarrassing mothers hog borrowed spotlight and spew inanities at the gawpers and stalkers.
Arsenal's interest and Suárez's apparent willingness to move to the Emirates sits uneasily with his previous insistence that the problem resided largely with the English media: London is in England too.
The extraordinary malleability of our expressed preferences in the face of trivial alterations in the choice context sits uneasily with the idea that there is such a thing as "what the American people want", the job of our political system being (ideally) to discern what this is and bring it about.
As for Viktor's branch of the family, under the benevolent Emperor Franz Josef they were, writes Edmund de Waal, Viktor's great-grandson, "so perfectly assimilated they …disappeared into Vienna .Among the other ponderous ornaments of that assimilation, the netsuke sat uneasily.
The Italians are uneasily aware of their dependence on Russian energy, but have been too distracted by internal political turmoil to do much about it.
The setting for that book, like Updike's other work, was suburban middle-America, and many of the characters were also recognisable from earlier books, but his central figure, a teenager who becomes radicalised, sits uneasily in this context uneasy both for the character and sadly the novel too.
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The young James Joyce was told to imagine a mountain of grains of sand a million miles high, a million miles wide and a million miles thick, from which every million years a little bird carried away one grain of sand; and when the mountain was removed, not a single instant of eternity would have ended.Hell itself seemed poised uneasily on the very edge of time.
