- 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
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
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
Doing his best to ignore this nauseating image, Harry read on.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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