uneasily

Uneasily means in a way that shows quiet worry. Not panic — a shifting in the chair.

It attaches to verbs of small movement and of speech, so shifting uneasily, laughing uneasily and glancing uneasily at the door are all standard, and each shows discomfort without naming it. There is a second use about coexistence, since two things that sit uneasily together do not really fit. The adjective uneasy describes both a feeling and a truce.