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queasy

[kwee-zee] / ˈkwi zi /


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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

Some investors seem queasy about the spending, but analysts seem fine with it.

From Barron's Mar. 30, 2026

It was the only thing within a multi-gate radius — a landscape of breakfast smash burgers and pepperoni pizza bagels — that didn’t make me queasy.

From Salon Mar. 9, 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

“Fish?” she said weakly, for the idea of baiting a hook made her queasy all over again.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

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

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




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