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Queasily


Definition:

  • (adv.) In a queasy manner.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As such, it sits queasily alongside more measured government responses, such as upgrading the Imperial War Museum in London and taking schoolchildren to see the battlefields and graveyards of France.
  • (2) Here were large-scale photographs (displayed for the first time in lightboxes) of her latest montages: originally hand-spliced (then rephotographed) juxtapositions of images from contemporary porn magazines, pictures of cars, cosmetics and accessories from more mainstream magazines and queasily close-up photographs of food.
  • (3) In particular, some libertarians are looking queasily at Trump’s discriminatory executive orders, his reckless sabre-rattling, and his big-spending plans and venting their concerns publicly.
  • (4) Given that what gets on my wick is precisely that kind of vacuous waffle, allow me to illuminate you all: Teavana Oprah Chai is merely vaguely spicy, very sweet tea that would be instantly forgettable if it wasn’t so queasily cloying.
  • (5) To contemporary readers, Crusoe's attitude to non‑whites is unpalatable; he sells a fellow shipwreck survivor to slavers, and his relationship with Friday seesaws queasily between friendship and servitude.
  • (6) Over the years, some terrible records have reached No 1 in the name of a good cause – The Crowd's You'll Never Walk Alone, the three different interpretations of Do They Know It's Christmas?, the queasily literal rendition of Knockin' On Heaven's Door in the wake of the Dunblane massacre – but they had the dignity to realise their limitations: get three weeks of airplay, raise the funds, then the record can disappear.

Queasy


Definition:

  • (a.) Sick at the stomach; affected with nausea; inclined to vomit; qualmish.
  • (a.) Fastidious; squeamish; delicate; easily disturbed; unsettled; ticklish.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Photograph: Hulton Archive Precisely how Shields achieves his queasy, waking-state guitar sound has long been the subject of stubbly examination.
  • (2) Journalists with previous embed experience will feel queasy at reports that Rupert Hamer and his photographer were travelling in a Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle (MRAP), the most advanced of all vehicles designed specifically to protect their passengers from fatal injury or death.
  • (3) On every page, someone, somehow has replaced every queasy showbiz bon mot with those two common nouns.
  • (4) And this – this odd feeling you get when you encounter Katrantzou's designs, half-queasy (like her Jewel Tree Dress, the £8,300 piece of "demi-couture" that's based on a Fabergé egg) and half-elated (again, that fabulous Jewel Tree Dress bobbing down a catwalk like someone's brie-affected dream) – this is why we're excited that, with her collection for Topshop hitting stores this week, we'll finally be able to afford a bit ourselves.
  • (5) I know no critic of Corbyn who isn’t intensely queasy about any move against him any time soon, on both political and democratic grounds.
  • (6) Despite this queasiness over heavily modified food ( a recent New York Times poll found more than 90% of Americans want GMOs labeled), a new era of so-called “extreme” genetic engineering is already dawning in grocery aisles.
  • (7) The Paul Flowers scandal has given many of Britain's top institutions reason to feel queasy.
  • (8) It was not just the tabloid press and the lock 'em up fraternity that felt queasy at the prospect of men who had sexually molested women being given a much more lenient sentence for admitting culpability early on.
  • (9) But the hard electoral truth is that a party that presents itself as the resistance movement for queasy metropolitan liberals is unlikely ever to be able to form a government (and by the way, Tim Farron got there long before Labour).
  • (10) Women who used this were regarded with sneaking respect: they were wild enough to have thrown caution to the wind yet sensible enough to reach for the best remedy and brave enough to go through the unpleasant, queasy-making experience.
  • (11) By the end of February, all was quiet save for global banks routinely updating queasy investors over the tens of billions of dollars they had lost by fuelling the madness we now know as the debt catastrophe.
  • (12) Both make many of their Lib Dem coalition partners feel queasy.
  • (13) Incest (Sister), references to rape (Lust U Always), a queasy description of his first sexual partner’s vagina (Schoolyard): before becoming a Jehovah’s Witness, Prince once considered this all fair game in his concerted effort to shock.
  • (14) Zolpidem, but not triazolam, produced increases in subject ratings of various somatic symptoms (e.g., dizzy, anxious and queasy) and there were 9 days on which subjects vomited after zolpidem, but none after triazolam.
  • (15) In fact, though the chancellor might be happy in the short term because of the VAT he would harvest, I should be feeling decidedly queasy wondering how I was going to service the debt I had taken on to make the purchase.
  • (16) He said: “It’s not surprising to me that there are some Republicans who are now a little queasy about the prospect of the impact that repealing Obamacare would have on their own supporters, on people in their own congressional districts, because we know there are people all across the country who benefit from this law, who are protected by this law, whose lives have been saved by this law, and the prospect of taking it away is a question of life or death for some people.” Earnest suggested that Obama would encourage Democrats to focus on aspects of the Affordable Care Act that have bipartisan support.
  • (17) And when the Italian prime minister contemplates the fate of David Cameron, consigned to political history after his own ill-starred referendum, he must feel distinctly queasy.
  • (18) My hunch is that Brooks's socialism would make Miliband queasy.
  • (19) When people – once again not all, but enough – thought of him being president, they checked their gut and it made them queasy .
  • (20) But to the casual observer, once the giddiness and excitement had died down, it was hard not to feel slightly queasy.

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