Unrest

Definitions

1. Feeling to find bad or annoying.
2. A state of trouble, confusion and turbulence, especially in a political context; a time of riots, demonstrations and protests.
   uncountable, usually
3. Something that troubles or confuses; that which causes unrest.
   uncountable, usually

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Examples

“What words are these have⟳ fall’n from me? ⁠Can calm despair and wild unrest ⁠Be tenants of a single breast, Or sorrow such a changeling be?”

“Few expect⟳ the unrest to stop⟳ anytime soon. The government may hope⟳ to outflank the protest⟳ movement by painting them as unwilling to accept⟳ compromise, but even some of Lam’s allies have⟳ publicly said that the withdrawal was too little, too late.”

“In her pyjamas, Sadie turned back the bedclothes to a single sheet, and settled down under it with a sigh⟳ of content; the languors of a body untroubled by mental unrests were a reward⟳ for the day's exertions.”

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