- present participle of nauseate.
nauseating
Example Sentences
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It was infested with rats and cockroaches, and smelt "nauseating".
From BBC • Mar. 4, 2026
It’s not enough to save the aesthetic of the entire film, though, which is somehow both gray and nauseating.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 23, 2026
While Mr. Party’s paintings are often nauseating at scale—vacuous portraits and landscapes in candy-store palettes—hitting his pieces with a shrink ray does wonders for them, and not just because there’s less to look at.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026
In the paper, they note something that sounds straight from a witch’s journal: “the strongest and most nauseating odor was observed towards midnight, attracting many flies, ants, moths and roaches.”
From Salon • May 27, 2025
The thick scent of the tree blossoms was beginning to border on nauseating.
From "Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story" by Nora Raleigh Baskin
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