nauseating

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It was infested with rats and cockroaches, and smelt "nauseating".

From BBC • Mar. 4, 2026

While Mr. Party’s paintings are often nauseating at scale—vacuous portraits and landscapes in candy-store palettes—hitting his pieces with a shrink ray does wonders for them, and not just because there’s less to look at.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026

In this moment, Egoyan asks us to consider all the nauseating possibilities surrounding that truth.

From Salon • Mar. 12, 2025

As night fell, I switched back to my original Twitter account, and sunk deep into that familiar, nauseating exasperation.

From Slate • Mar. 8, 2025

“Surely he was joking!” she thought quickly, which was just as quickly followed by the nauseating suspicion that he was not.

From "The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling" by Maryrose Wood