(a.) Not secure; not confident of safety or permanence; distrustful; suspicious; apprehensive of danger or loss.
(a.) Not effectually guarded, protected, or sustained; unsafe; unstable; exposed to danger or loss.
Example Sentences:
(1) The author discusses marriages in which a basically insecure husband plays a god-like role and his wife, who initially worshipped him, matures and finds her situation depressing and degrading.
(2) Foreign investment has been sluggish because of insecurity, red tape and corruption.
(3) Ultimately, the judgments combine to make a particularly peculiar melange: among the plaintiffs there is a mix of economic pessimism and insecure nationalism with a shot of nostalgia for the Deutschmark.
(4) Insecure infant attachment at 16 months was associated with maternal perception of overcontrol, depressed mood state, and aversive conditioning to the impending cry in the laboratory task at the 5-month period.
(5) Trade unions have sought to highlight the insecurity of workers who have been forced into self-employment in the tough jobs market of recent years.
(6) The sniping followed an article by Cameron in the Sunday Times , in which he called on the coalition to provide a "strong, decisive and united government" in the wake of acrimonious splits over Lords reform, warning that the public will not stand for "division and navel-gazing" at a time of social and economic insecurity.
(7) Amor Almagro, spokesperson for the World Food Programme (WFP) in Sudan, said: "There have been several meetings between the government of Sudan and the Tripartite on the implementation of the MoU, but so far access has not been granted for us to carry out an assessment and deliver much needed food assistance in areas held by the SPLM-N. "We remain concerned about the ongoing conflict and insecurity, which has hampered our ability to reach all those in need of food assistance."
(8) She says that the spread of insecure, short-term contracts and part-time work, together with benefits cuts and paltry wage growth, have meant that many people in work are struggling to make ends meet.
(9) Christina Wille, director, Insecurity Insight , Bellevue, Switzerland Demand data from those you fund : Gender sensitive donors in humanitarian aid should ask those they fund for better reporting on sex segregated violence.
(10) Thousands of desperate Syrians remain stuck inside Syria on the Turkish and Iraqi borders amidst mounting insecurity and with winter fast approaching.
(11) The very complex postburn situation explains why there are so many different shock-preventing fluid therapy programmes and such crude and insecure monitoring of the therapy.
(12) Insecurity has led to panic buying of fuel, with long, chaotic queues at petrol stations.
(13) Such a response is not surprising; it is rooted in the old Marxist belief that support for nationalist parties is driven by economic insecurity, and encouraged by capitalists who would prefer ethnic over class conflict.
(14) Politicians here always say they will act on immigration, yet they never do.” Florence Faucher, professor of political science at Paris’s Sciences Po University, said there were parallels between Front National voters in France and those who backed Ukip in the UK, particularly the sense of those who felt “left behind”, who hadn’t benefited from globalisation, feared the insecurity in the job market and worried about their future.
(15) The Guardian view on Jeremy Corbyn’s conference speech: he won a hearing not the argument | Editorial Read more The insecurity of many tenancies and the increased number of families moved out of their local areas, away from family and support networks, because of housing shortages and welfare cuts, was pinpointed as a key problem.
(16) When the human figure drawings were used as a projective tool, four personality traits of some of the children were identified: physical inadequacy, immaturity, body anxiety, and insecurity.
(17) Other research shows children from food-insecure families are 30% more likely to have been hospitalized for a range of illnesses.
(18) The children see education as crucial to improving their lives and in most cases the only way to escape poverty and insecurity.
(19) Gordon Brown's speech played deliberately and directly to the very real fears of many of those people, whether on drunken louts in the high street or teenage mums or financial insecurity, but the paper ignores all that and lands the blow it has been planning for months.
(20) Many people have been pushed into self-employment because they cannot find a suitable alternative job, the TUC said, raising concerns that insecure self-employment, agency work and zero-hours contracts are becoming a permanent feature of the jobs market even as the economy recovers.
Unsure
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) But the position of locum GPs remains worryingly unsure.
(2) Manchester United 3-1 Barcelona | match report Read more While, according to Louis van Gaal , Rojo was not on the flight because of an issue with his travel documents, the manager was unsure why Di María had failed to board the plane.
(3) Mothers, Stadlen suggests, only turn dogmatic or bossy when they feel cornered or unsure of themselves.
(4) Other critics, even if they were unsure of the lasting relevance, were willing to give Tillmans the benefit of the doubt.
(5) Senior civil servant Simon Case joined the UK’s EU embassy in March to lead work on the new partnership with the bloc, but EU diplomats are unsure how he fits into the picture.
(6) If you are really unsure as to what’s acceptable, then just don’t do it, or go in wearing your underwear.
(7) In the email King sets out ways jobcentre staff can catch out claimants, saying: "You should consider every doubt – if you are unsure then please conference with me."
(8) Graham said he was unsure “where this will go”.
(9) The reality is that most of America is really unsure about it, which is exactly how it should be – because you can look at talking points and models all day, but no one knows for sure what's going to happen.
(10) As things stand, the OECD is unsure whether this is a temporary pause in economic recovery or something more serious.
(11) test: If you are unsure about whether activities conducted by a particular supplier should be tolerated or not, consider how you would feel if you could see it happening for yourself.
(12) She remains unsure why she was deemed at risk of developing ovarian cancer: she was too shocked to ask questions, the operation deemed too urgent to give her time to reflect.
(13) We’re all a bit unsure,” says Martin Wilson, from Warrington and now living in the Costa del Sol town of Nerja with his family.
(14) The 160-year-old shoe retailer may yet be rescued, but about 1,000 workers are unsure about their future employment.
(15) Although the scientists said they were still unsure whether a warming climate would result in an increase in the frequency of hurricanes and other tropical cyclones, there was a stark warning for the northern hemisphere, and areas of Europe and North America where currently hurricanes hardly ever happen.
(16) 'If you're saying, "We're not going to tell you the whole truth, but we're going to ask you to pay up a lot of money," people are going to be unsure.'
(17) Support groups for EU citizens in Britain have criticised the long delay and uncertainty faced by families and workers in the UK, who are unsure of their immigration status following Brexit.
(18) Over 80% were unsure of the meaning of fluoride tablets, gum disease, gingivitis and oral hygiene.
(19) From London to New York to Hong Kong, many are crammed into micro-apartments that cost hundreds of pounds or dollars a month to rent, unsure when they will be able to afford a more permanent abode.
(20) Because there is no standardized definition of what constitutes a condition of tongue-tie, the dental practitioner is often unsure as to the appropriate course of action with a patient with suspected ankyloglossia.