nauseating
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A rom-com need not be a sparkling shelf covered with bon-bons, but it shouldn’t be a nauseating cloud of carbon monoxide that makes you want to flee.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026
It was infested with rats and cockroaches, and smelt "nauseating".
From BBC • Mar. 4, 2026
The circus is all a bit nauseating, and that’s the point: If we’re fatigued by just watching this spectacle, imagine living it.
From Salon • Oct. 2, 2025
As night fell, I switched back to my original Twitter account, and sunk deep into that familiar, nauseating exasperation.
From Slate • Mar. 8, 2025
Down streets, through alleys, my palm pressed over my nose to block out the nauseating odors rising from trash heaps.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
Vocabulary lists containing nauseating
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