(a.) Sick at the stomach; affected with nausea or sickly languor; inclined to vomit.
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Squeamish
Definition:
(a.) Having a stomach that is easily or nauseated; hence, nice to excess in taste; fastidious; easily disgusted; apt to be offended at trifling improprieties.
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(1) But more than any squeamishness around buying sperm like teabags, the problem is that this industry is over-claiming.
(2) Did she, as a child, feel equal squeamishness about the sexual content of his art?
(3) For India's British colonial rulers this could have meant many things, including consensual fellatio between a man and a woman, but its squeamish machismo clearly had in mind penetrative sex between two adult males, a spectre that continues to terrify the morally correct across the world .
(4) Less squeamishness in reporting the reality of death would show the barbarous truth about how badly life ends for all too many.
(5) Hofer’s victory would require a clarification of speech from the commenting world, and we will have to be less squeamish about the word “fascist”: an urgent de-normalisation of political language.
(6) When it came to it, my mother still had to take my daughter for the injections, as I was too squeamish.
(7) And she sacked big beasts too, including those – George Osborne or Michael Gove – whose dispatch a more squeamish leader might have feared.
(8) By popular arts, Hamilton emphatically did not mean the folk arts, which turned him very squeamish.
(9) Just capitalism in action, it might be argued – no point being squeamish.
(10) But while in many countries entomophagy is normal, in the UK we can be squeamish about it.
(11) Maude is also right that elected ministers should not devolve controversial decisions out of squeamishness – although I note the Independent Reconfiguration Panel , set up so health ministers wouldn't have to take flak about merging hospitals in their own or colleagues' constituencies, stays.
(12) Opportunities presented themselves for promising junior staff - which the future Cameroons were not squeamish about taking.
(13) And leave them out altogether if you’re squeamish yourself.
(14) Secret aid worker: I'm a sanitation specialist but I'm squeamish about poo Read more Catarina de Albuquerque, chair of the global Sanitation and Water for All partnership, calls the Global Citizen concert the tip of the iceberg.
(15) Boyle's films have never been for the squeamish: witness the lavatorial epiphany in Trainspotting , or the shadowy child-torture of Slumdog .
(16) So while some people may be squeamish about Twitter and there may be good reason to be cautious , I can't help but see it as a privilege to be able to tap into the thoughts of individuals which, presented as a stream, fascinate and educate.
(17) But chalk one up for the boy scouts and their first aid training, because he grabbed me and cleared my airways – no task for the squeamish – while yelling at the cabbie to drive faster.
(18) But the truth is, I am very squeamish when it comes to my loo habits.
(19) Squeamishness has too often in the recent past inhibited sensible inquiries into the mechanisms by which AIDS is spread through human populations but now there may be proof that these attitudes are changing.
(20) Together these groups represent a potentially vast reservoir of HDP voters, whose inherent squeamishness about favouring a Kurdish nationalist party Demirtaş hopes in time to surmount.