qualmish
Example Sentences
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Flattery is the destruction of all good fellowship; it is like a qualmish liqueur in the midst of a bottle of wine.
From Vivian Grey by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield
So when Peter Basset, still pale and qualmish, came on deck in the early morning, a little below the Pool, the first person he saw was the girl whom he had come to escort.
From The Great House by Weyman, Stanley John
In the sense of nervous weakness, or, perhaps more correctly, nervine weakness, the word should probably be nervish, analogous to qualmish, squeamish, aguish, feverish, &c.
The regular heel of the brig gave place to a confused pitching and tossing, signs that I hailed with delight, in spite of a qualmish sensation which the motion seemed to encourage.
From The Quest of the 'Golden Hope' A Seventeenth Century Story of Adventure by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)
Naturally our handsome youth felt rather qualmish under the circumstances, and he would have given his carriage and horses to have had eyes at the back of his head.
From The Fourth Estate, vol. 2 by Palacio Vald?s, Armando
