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queasy

[kwee-zee] / ˈkwi zi /


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If you’re afraid of heights, prepare to feel slightly queasy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

Plus, this year’s Rush Week revealed a queasy new strategy to thin the recruiting ranks.

From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2026

Djokovic suffered a similarly queasy wipeout a few weeks ago at a tournament in Cincinnati, but this was his first loss in 20 opening rounds at the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 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

In fact, with the weight in my stomach, just the sight of food made me feel queasy.

From "It All Comes Down to This" by Karen English

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

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

As even the queasiest guest quickly realized, something was different.

From Time Magazine Archive


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