queasy

No wonder big market swings might make some investors feel queasy.

From Barron's ● Jun. 16, 2026

On that occasion, Tesla investors turned queasy, pushing Tesla shares down by more than 10% the day the deal was announced.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 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

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

“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

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

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