unsettle

Object

• player: However, another way of looking at this is that Jimmy was using commendable nous in attempting to unsettle the players.
• bit: Are you just a little bit unsettled by what you have read here are you a true altruist with our interestes at heart?
• people: I managed to really unsettle a few people, which was nice.
• audience: Heather Bell is a fictional character, an actress, whose aim was to create emotion and unsettle the audience.
• mind: Over a hundred years later it still has the power to raise eyebrows and unsettle some tender minds.
• market: Reform on these lines would not unsettle the financial markets, which already accept that the existing rules are untenable.

Subject

• teaching: In the case of the Thessalonians they were being unsettled by some false teaching about the second coming.
• change: There is no inquiry. * I am unsettled by the constant changes within the Interior Ministry.

Preposition: at

time: If your child is unsettled at any time during the morning, we will come and get you from the adult service.

Adjective complement

most: Not quite sure what was up with BB as she was twitchy and unsettled most of the time and permanently latched on - sigh.

Modifying Another Word

• rather: Early in the morning Farrow had been rather unsettled in his manner.
• easily: When she came into Nursery, she had very little language and was very easily unsettled by anything new.
• clearly: The audience, too, was clearly unsettled by some of the paraphernalia of faith, played up to look initially like drug taking.
• still: Memories of his brother's death in particular still unsettle him.
• very: Some children will have been neglected, had very unsettled lives, or have been subject to physical or sexual abuse.
• really: What really unsettled me was, having been treated in such a way, what their agenda really was.

Used with why or when

when: Lou slaps Anita twice and taunts her to hit her back, and is unsettled when she refuses.

Preposition: by

• teaching: In the case of the Thessalonians they were being unsettled by some false teaching about the second coming.
• change: There is no inquiry. * I am unsettled by the constant changes within the Interior Ministry.
• quot: Unsettled by the quot we're a provider has been.