qualmish
Example Sentences
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Now, captain, it’s no use being qualmish upon the subject, but upon my word I should like to see how you poachers manage to take your game.
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So when Peter Basset, still pale and qualmish, came on deck in the early morning, a little below the Pool, the first person he saw was the girl whom he had come to escort.
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He would never consent to such strong measures, as might seem convenient to less qualmish persons.
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Shane liked something more highly spiced than an innocent miss, who, he declared, always made him qualmish with a smell of bread and butter.
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In the sense of nervous weakness, or, perhaps more correctly, nervine weakness, the word should probably be nervish, analogous to qualmish, squeamish, aguish, feverish, &c.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
