qualmish
Example Sentences
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Naturally our handsome youth felt rather qualmish under the circumstances, and he would have given his carriage and horses to have had eyes at the back of his head.
From The Fourth Estate, vol. 2 by Palacio Vald?s, Armando
All this is very queer now, thought Captain Delano, with a qualmish sort of emotion; but, as one feeling incipient sea-sickness, he strove, by ignoring the symptoms, to get rid of the malady.
From The Piazza Tales by Melville, Herman
"I hope there is no row between you;" for the idea of an open quarrel between Phil and Acton made Jack rather qualmish.
From Acton's Feud A Public School Story by Swainson, Frederick
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.
But now, faced with the unpleasant part of his task, he was beginning to feel decidedly qualmish.
From Warrior of the Dawn by Browne, Howard
