Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not pacific or peaceful; unquiet; disturbed.
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- adjective Not
peaceful , the opposite of peaceful.
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- adjective not peaceful
Etymologies
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Examples
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Retreat Cillian Murphy and Thandie Newton on an unpeaceful island getaway.
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"I have no doubt that it was fabricated and staged to give the impression that these were unpeaceful people," Mr. Megahed said.
Clashes Between Christians, Police Rock Cairo Matt Bradley 2011
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Someone, working in secret from the highest level in the Ministry of Culture, has made the most disrespectful decision: not a single frame shall escape from the censoring scissors of the despot's accomplices, as our nomenklatura of lies spits its sterility on the unpeaceful memory of Jose Lezama Lima.
Yoani Sanchez: Open Letter to the World (Excepting Abel Prieto, Cuba's Minister of Culture) Yoani Sanchez 2010
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Someone, working in secret from the highest level in the Ministry of Culture, has made the most disrespectful decision: not a single frame shall escape from the censoring scissors of the despot's accomplices, as our nomenklatura of lies spits its sterility on the unpeaceful memory of Jose Lezama Lima.
Yoani Sanchez: Open Letter to the World (Excepting Abel Prieto, Cuba's Minister of Culture) Yoani Sanchez 2010
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Someone, working in secret from the highest level in the Ministry of Culture, has made the most disrespectful decision: not a single frame shall escape from the censoring scissors of the despot's accomplices, as our nomenklatura of lies spits its sterility on the unpeaceful memory of Jose Lezama Lima.
Yoani Sanchez: Open Letter to the World (Excepting Abel Prieto, Cuba's Minister of Culture) Yoani Sanchez 2010
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It was into this illogical and decidedly unpeaceful world of the far Comanche frontier that Mackenzie came in 1871.
EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010
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Jimmy Carter, the man of peace, in the midst of a campaign which his own party regarded as a sacred mission to retrieve the country from warmongers, made a bizarre pilgrimage to Palestine whose only evident purpose was to create the expected public outrage that his laying a wreath on the grave of the very unpeaceful Yasser Arafat could be expected to create.
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