Ben Jonson, The Fox, act iii. sc. 1.
Jerome, a very unequal relator of the opinion of his adversaries.—Worthington, Life of Joseph Mede, p. xi.
Uneasy. This has lost the sense of ‘difficult,’ and means now restless or anxious. But the objective signification is to be found in our Bible and in Shakespeare.
The town was hard to besiege and uneasy to come unto.—2 Macc. xii. 21. (A.V.)
This swift business
I must uneasy make, lest too light winning
Make the prize light.
Shakespeare, The Tempest, act i. sc. 2.
Unhandsome. See ‘Handsome.’
A narrow straight path by the water’s side, very unhandsome [οὐ ῥᾳδίαν] for an army to pass that way, though they found not a man to keep the passage.—North, Plutarch’s Lives, p. 317; cf. p. 378.