ill at ease

He seemed a bit ill-at-ease at first but warmed to the task as the briefing went on.

Tressan was monstrous ill-at-ease, and his face lost a good deal of its habitual plethora of colour.

Cathcart coughed and was obviously ill-at-ease, but he answered with some show of dignity.

They will remain ill-at-ease until, somewhere in the heights where Mediunah is preparing for another day, a cock crows.

He was ill-at-ease, almost incoherent at moments, and it was a long time before she could discover his business.

He was spending his declining years in the arduous but surprisingly successful task of being wretched, irritable and ill-at-ease.