queasy
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Plus, this year’s Rush Week revealed a queasy new strategy to thin the recruiting ranks.
From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2026
Or, “I’m feeling a little queasy this morning.”
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026
Some said they did have side effects, with one feeling tired and a bit queasy "almost like nerves" when he first started but adding he felt that was worth it for the results he saw.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
Maurten’s head of sports tech, Josh Rowe, recalls how, not long ago, major races used to have sick buckets at the finish line for queasy finishers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026
She didn’t look quite so queasy, despite the fact that Coach Hedge was still singing his Pokemon song at the helm.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
It’s a creepy setup that Muschietti milks for laughs that become queasier and ickier the longer and the more gleefully flamboyant the scene plays out.
From New York Times ● Jun. 14, 2023
He underlaid moments of suspense with rumbling jazz percussion and made the execution scene queasier with a slinking piccolo motif over a drooping swing rhythm.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 30, 2020
Ethically, too, he felt queasier about the project.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 2, 2017
But in spite of Elle's queasier exploitation aspects — an expected Verhoeven staple — and its why-would-anyone-do-that questions, it's a mesmerizing movie.
From The Verge ● Sep. 12, 2016
Without the solid earth beneath my feet, my stomach grew even queasier.
From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood
That’s why Schwarzenegger was grateful for the season’s queasiest plot turn.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2025
As the #MeToo movement approaches its anniversary, this feels like one of the queasiest revelations it has produced.
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2018
Rather worryingly, musically speaking, the queasiest stuff – the discords and the lurching, seasick strings – are reserved for the obsessive music fan, rather than, say, the murderer.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 13, 2010
Persuading even the queasiest of readers to spend hours learning about an extravagant variety of invertebrates, the effect of Richard Conniffs Svineless Wonders is to render the repulsive beautiful.
From SAT Tests
Even coroners--not normally the queasiest of folk--can find themselves affected.
From Time Magazine Archive
Vocabulary lists containing queasy
Flowers for Algernon
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
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