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disquieting

dis kwahy uh ting

  • v  disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed
  • s  causing mental discomfort
    the disquieting sounds of nearby gunfire

  • It was a very disquieting time.
  • The vice president brought the disquieting news that Iraq's "ability to miniaturize weapons of mass destruction, particularly nuclear," had been "substantially refined since the .
  • That was the disquieting reality India awoke to on July 27, after a coordinated series of bomb blasts rocked Ahmedabad, an elegant, ancient city in the western state of Gujarat.
News & Articles

  • Our Alarming Ignorance About Government Phone Surveillance
    What's most disquieting about the Guardian's revelation that the federal government has been vacuuming up vast quantities of phone data is what we don't know. The highly classified FISA court order authorizes the National Security Agency to collect phone metadata (that is, information about the call, but not its contents or the identities of those involved) from Verizon Business Network Services ...
    June 6, 2013 - Forbes
Quotes

  • Natwar Singh in Sify
    In countries such as yours, where the disquieting process of secularisation is much advanced, many young people are themselves coming to realise that it is the transcendent order that steers all life along the path of authentic freedom and... Pope Benedict XVI http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Benedict_XVI&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNG46bW2RwVceLegHVO52x6Mpv_pVg Sunday Times.au http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.sundaytimes.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,7034,19186834%25255E401,00.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGGegEAczIZTsYq9UyJic63uU3UjA May 18, 2006 28829 37589 disquieting There are various disquieting aspects to the hearings that took place and the nature of discussions. Not once was the word reciprocity used in Senate hearings. (Instead) the term unilateral is used consistently," said Singh, who quit as...
  • Jaroslaw Kaczynski in International Herald Tribune
    The joy over Civic Platform's success, expressed by the capitals of countries that have objectively contradictory interests to Poland, is very disquieting,Kaczynski told a news conference.

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