queasy
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No wonder big market swings might make some investors feel queasy.
From Barron's ● Jun. 16, 2026
Rice’s readers might not have been quite so queasy about this; her antihero has a way of making many horrors palatable.
From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2026
Don’t take his deal if it leaves you feeling queasy or questionable, especially if you don’t like your children being potentially dependent on the largesse of your husband.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 7, 2026
This is when “Heel” is at its most alluringly queasy, a dark commentary on all families as institutions inherently built on confinement and emotional blackmail.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2026
The word alone makes my stomach queasy, and if I imagine too much, I’m afraid I won’t do what needs to be done.
From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed
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
The longer I was there, the queasier I felt.
From New York Times ● Sep. 29, 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
And every movie-within-the-movie had this in common, too: It was conceived and undertaken in a mood of bluff, comradely good humor—even if, during the re-creation process itself, queasier emotions often began to arise.
From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2015
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
Could the queasiest of comebacks be ruled out?
From The Guardian ● Aug. 2, 2019
As the #MeToo movement approaches its anniversary, this feels like one of the queasiest revelations it has produced.
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2018
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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A Thousand Splendid Suns
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