Unsavoury vs Disquieting - What's the difference?
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(British)
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Causing mental trouble or anguish; upsetting; making uneasy.
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*:It is never possible to settle down to the ordinary routine of life at sea until the screw begins to revolve. There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.
The act by which someone or something is disquieted.
* Edward Reynolds
Unsavoury is a related term of disquieting.
As adjectives the difference between unsavoury and disquieting
is that unsavoury is (british) while disquieting is causing mental trouble or anguish; upsetting; making uneasy.As a verb disquieting is
.As a noun disquieting is
the act by which someone or something is disquieted.unsavoury
English
Adjective
(en adjective)citation, page= , passage=The lawyer and twice-divorced mother of three had presented herself as the modern face of her party, trying to strip it of unsavoury overtones after her father's convictions for saying the Nazi occupation of France was not "particularly inhumane".}}
disquieting
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- Thus we see the intuition of divine truth in minds of defiled affections, worketh not that sweet effect which is natural unto it to produce; but doubtings, terrors, and disquietings of conscience