nauseate
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But instead of ogling violence to exploit its evil and nauseate the audience, Lynch calls attention to the systems that propagate it.
From Salon ● Jan. 25, 2025
Q. Fed up in Philadelphia: I love my in-laws very much, but they have hygiene habits that nauseate me.
From Slate ● Jun. 7, 2021
The prerelease build of Obduction I tried in the Oculus Rift didn’t nauseate me, although it suffered from the occasional frame rate drop — one of the issues Cyan is still ironing out.
From The Verge ● Sep. 10, 2016
“Blood, skin, bone,” Connie thinks, as she breathes in the scent of rotting animal, a smell that used to nauseate her.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 1, 2016
He was afraid that it might nauseate him and he would vomit and lose his strength.
From "The Old Man and The Sea" by Ernest Hemingway
He is, in other words, an almost nauseatingly successful prospect in a sport that more often nauseates once-successful prospects for years before they find their way.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 29, 2023
That, obviously, nauseates moderates, who’d prefer something that’s either half of that or lower.
From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2021
“But its reality has become so overwhelming that it kind of nauseates me,” she said.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 24, 2018
McKay’s book, Du Bois wrote, “for the most part nauseates me, and after the dirtier parts of its filth I feel distinctly like taking a bath.”
From New York Times ● May 3, 2015
“And the priest keeps touching my mouth and it nauseates me,” Jaja said.
From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
By the end, both of us felt slightly nauseated, though not by the food.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 2026
People who were nauseated by the drugs were more likely to report increased food waste.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 21, 2024
The effect can be vertiginous—so the way people avoid being nauseated is by trying to ignore the dissonance.
From Salon ● May 29, 2024
So why would the committee members publish a document so likely to leave millions of Americans nauseated?
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2024
The house smelled fruity and she remembered how the peach had nauseated her the last time she was there.
From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison
A cloud of smoke hung over the town of Ille-sur-Tet, where residents described the nauseating smell of burning.
From Barron's ● Jul. 5, 2026
The floor was so grubby that the thought of sitting anywhere on it was nauseating — and regardless, the lanes were now too dark for reading, lit primarily by bright neon stripes and squiggles.
From Salon ● Jul. 3, 2026
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
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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