Uncomfortably
[ʌn'kʌmftəbli]
Definition
(adv.) in physical discomfort; 'she lay on the couch, her body uncomfortably twisted'.
Checker: Susie--From WordNet
Examples
- France, now disillusioned and uncomfortably royalist again, was hot in pursuit of him. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Yes, I am, a little that way, Uncomfortably damp, perhaps. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Wildeve reflected uncomfortably. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Not a silly one, I hope, said Mary, beginning to pluck the roses again, and feeling her heart beat uncomfortably. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Poor Jo blushed till she couldn't blush any redder, and her heart began to beat uncomfortably fast as she thought what she had said. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- I see something of that in Mr. Tyke at the Hospital: a good deal of his doctrine is a sort of pinching hard to make people uncomfortably aware of him. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Feeling very much ruffled, she went and stood at a quiet window to cool her cheeks, for the tight dress gave her an uncomfortably brilliant color. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- The addition of over seven hundred to this list crowded the steamer most uncomfortably, especially for the tropics in July. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
Checker: Susie