He shifted uncomfortably in his chair.
Huniphrey sat uncomfortably in the hardbacked witness chair.
As there wasn't anything to do in the place but work they were uncomfortably conspicuous loafing about the streets.
The hoarse messenger, uncomfortably seated on a form after taking that refection, had dropped into a doze, when a loud murmur and a rapid tide of people setting up the stairs that led to the court, carried him along with them.
uncomfortably closed or hemmed in.
Scobie shifted uncomfortably in his chair.
The little he had eaten seemed to lie uncomfortably cross-wise in his stomach.
uncomfortably realistic,
He wriggled uncomfortably on the hard chair.
deeply provincial and conformist; in that well-educated company I felt uncomfortably provincial; narrow provincial attitudes.
An uncomfortably confined space.
The rumpled mattress stuck into me most uncomfortably.
EXAMPLE: More uncomfortably, more Congressmen, pundits and voters feel justified in claiming that foreigners use unfair trade practices to steal US jobs, particularly in manufacturing, and hence in urging protectionism.
To be uncomfortably tight or restricting, as clothes.
He shifted uncomfortably,"Marsha's just a child."
Feeling no warmth;uncomfortably chilled.
The exams are getting uncomfortably close.
She carried her heroism to the pitch of knitting socks for the forthcoming baby, although to do so made her heart palpitate uncomfortably.
He felt uncomfortably from head to foot and uneasy at heart, due to the late hour, the last few exhausting days and his hair-raising escape.
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