squeamish
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Squeamish readers may blanch at the amount of blood-flecked sputum the tubercular Chopin coughs up on the page, and at the procession of doctors with their leeches and milk diets.
From New York Times • Nov. 19, 2018
Squeamish diners have long made spoon polishing a nervous ritual, and almost everywhere a dirty caf� is called a "greasy spoon."
From Time Magazine Archive
Squeamish persons felt as if they had opened the wrong door.
From Time Magazine Archive
She had, as Mrs. Squeamish in Wycherley's play, once acted with Quin on the occasion of his benefit and she well remembered his stiff, stilted style and how he domineered over everybody.
From Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera' by Pearce, Charles Edward
Squeamish, skwēm′ish, adj. sickish at stomach: easily disgusted or offended: fastidious in taste.—adv.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
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