UNSETTLING in a Sentence

unsettling

 a.  makes one troubled or uneasy; disquieting or distressing

1  They arose from the unsettling of the minds of the masses, and the consequent weakening of all authority.

A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VI. TOBIAS GREGSON SHOWS WHAT HE CAN DO

2  It had been felt that the existence of a farm owned and operated by pigs was somehow abnormal and was liable to have an unsettling effect in the neighbourhood.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter X

3  But my plan was unsettled, and I wandered many hours round the confines of the town, uncertain what path I should pursue.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24

4  He was altogether too unsettled in his mind over it, to appreciate it comfortably I thought, or to have anybody to dine with him, without making a chop with his jaws at the visitor.

Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter III

5  'Well, she's unsettled at present,' said Mr. Omer.

David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 30. A LOSS

6  My quickness of apprehension seemed to please him, and he went on: 'Now I consider this is principally on account of her being in an unsettled state, you see.'

David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 30. A LOSS

7  We have talked it over a good deal, her uncle and myself, and her sweetheart and myself, after business; and I consider it is principally on account of her being unsettled.

David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 30. A LOSS

8  The fact is, we avoid mentioning the subject; and my unsettled prospects and indifferent circumstances are a great consolation to them.

David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 41. DORA'S AUNTS

9  I feel in a misty and unsettled kind of state; as if I had got up very early in the morning a week or two ago, and had never been to bed since.

David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 43. ANOTHER RETROSPECT

10  At last I began to believe, that, in the flighty and unsettled state of his mind, he had either forgotten his intention or abandoned it.

David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 45. MR. DICK FULFILS MY AUNT'S PREDICTIONS

11  She scolded him for her business being still unsettled.

Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 7: Chapter 11

12  We used to be faithful about it, but since Father went away and all this war trouble unsettled us, we have neglected many things.

Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWO

13  The days kept getting longer and longer, the weather was unusually variable and so were tempers; an unsettled feeling possessed everyone, and Satan found plenty of mischief for the idle hands to do.

Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER ELEVEN

14  Now, Mr. Bhaer was a diffident man and slow to offer his own opinions, not because they were unsettled, but too sincere and earnest to be lightly spoken.

Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR

15  He is not very forgiving: he broke with his family, and now for many years he has led an unsettled kind of life.

Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII

1  Most unsettling, he said, was finding his own credentials among the compromised data.

2  The prospect of change of this kind has an unsettling effect on any organisation.

3  Britain's unsettled political scene also worries some investors.

4  The boundary questions still remain unsettled.

5  His views, and those of many of his counterparts in other European countries, may be unpalatable to the liberal political mainstream, but they clearly struck a chord among a portion of the population which is increasingly unsettled by the growing number of immigrants to Europe.

6  The result of all this agitation is an unsettlement that paralyzes business.