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Slightly unhappy
Answer for the clue "Slightly unhappy ", 12 letters:
out of sorts
Word definitions for out of sorts in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Out \Out\ (out), adv. [OE. out, ut, oute, ute, AS. [=u]t, and [=u]te, [=u]tan, fr. [=u]t; akin to D. uit, OS. [=u]t, G. aus, OHG. [=u]z, Icel. [=u]t, Sw. ut, Dan. ud, Goth. ut, Skr. ud. [root]198. Cf. About , But , prep., Carouse , Utter , a.] In its original ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. (context idiomatic English) irritable or somewhat unwell, with vague medical symptoms.
Usage examples of out of sorts.
I have no other way to work off the energy, and I am feeling out of sorts because of that.
Only the ears, which were pointed and set oddly on both sides of her face, would have seemed out of sorts.
Belgarath seemed moody and out of sorts, so the rest of them avoided him as they worked at tasks they had repeated so many times that they had become habitual.
The longer I knelt there, the more out of sorts I felt, so that I was positively relieved when the General finally arrived-even though he did nothing more, after I had greeted him, than turn on the radio and sit drinking a beer.
Joff did not know what to make of that, though he looked suspicious and out of sorts.