What's the difference between queasy and squeamish?

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.

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.

Example Sentences:

  • (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.