unnerving's Usage Examples:

his esoteric novels and poems written in an accessible yet erratic and unnerving style.

The film gives an "unnerving and compelling .

The Independent, and described as one of Pinter's "most haunting and unnerving pieces".

became disastrous until assistants interceded with guns drawn, visibly unnerving host Art Baker.

"one-man Hollywood" by The New York Times, creating high concept films with unnerving themes and low budgets.

has never harmed anyone and has only ever proved to be a pitiful, if unnerving sight.

portents or harbingers of doom or death, because of their dark plumage, unnerving calls, and tendency to eat carrion.

rhythmic cells upon which the work is built gradually swell up to an unnerving climax high in the orchestra’s range, followed by a brief recapitulation.

Dunn (1996) describes it as "one of the most unnerving episodes in the whole of the New Testament.

some members of the crew are having trouble sleeping and experience unnerving reactions to particular objects for unknown reasons and decide to investigate.

advocacy organizations in which his methods were put into the spotlight unnerving him and creating the need for action to be taken.

shimmering sensuality in various shady cloaks of weirdness" and as "songs of unnerving delicacy, elemental and acoustic simplicity.

but poor reliability from the Barry Jones built Mazda engine, the cars unnerving habit of shedding rear wheels, plus a big crash by Smith in the final.

intelligence (David Clayton Rogers) that begins to exhibit startling and unnerving emergent behavior when a reporter (Lucy Griffiths) begins a relationship.

film, writing "The first 30 minutes of Kairo is perhaps some of the most unnerving, frightening sequences to come down the pike in a long time.

They do, however, have an unnerving tendency to crawl across anything in their path regardless of whether.

It was a real baptism of fire and quite unnerving.

Village Voice, and has been described as a subversive originator of "unnerving artistry" who "hardly seems human" in a 2019 review in The Observer.

Synonyms:

alarming; redoubtable; formidable;

Antonyms:

alarm; disreputable; unimpressive; unalarming;