Unsettling

Compare unsettled with the word unsettling, which describes something that causes you to feel unsettled.

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For example, watching the horror film on my own was quite unsettling. I can imagine.

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Above anything else, the adventures give us something to do that keeps our minds healthy and stimulated. [doorbell rings] Thank goodness this is all a dream, right, Pomni? [unsettling musical sting] [gasps] Why are we here again?

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Now, sure, binge watching TV or scrolling a social media feed are pretty different than crossing the Bering Strait, but they're still unsettling, right?

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Oh, what are you doing, Isabella? Oh, that is um you're breaking the law. After unsettling and turning out our horses, we all sat and watched the sunset and just enjoyed talking to each other.

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It's like a hallucination or a nightmare or something like that. Let's go on because we're getting stuck on the first bit quite a lot, aren't we? Unsettling.

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Mhm. And what's really interesting here is how aberration implies this notable divergence often with significant, maybe even unsettling implications.

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It suggests a fundamental deviation from regularity often carrying a connotation of something being fundamentally problematic or unsettling, not just novel.

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And here's the unsettling part. It has never stopped moving.

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And the unsettling thing is, it may mean precisely that.

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It's so haunting and it's like a Tim Burton film or kind of that feeling of the Tim Burton film. That haunting, slightly uncanny, slightly unsettling, like kind of the strangeness, the oddness of characters in a Burton film. It's that but in a book.

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This book is very haunting, very uncanny, deeply unsettling.

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As I said, Malbolge still manages to feel unsettling at times, even though it's zany.

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The build-up is genuinely unsettling, and then the actual absorption scene looks like something out of Garry's mod, but it catches you so off-guard that it gives you whiplash. You need to do a double take.

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He's just chilling at his house when a commercial comes up on the TV. It presents the newly built resort and the totally not-unsettling squid totems. So, of course, Dawson immediately grabs his phone and books his vacation. No hesitation.

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