queasy

And unlike us mere mortals, they aren’t afflicted by pesky qualms about their reputation or career, or that queasy feeling in the gut produced by years of social conditioning against lying or ripping people off.

From Slate ● Oct. 25, 2026

The reason you’re a little queasy about being 90%-plus in equities all of a sudden is because your risk tolerance naturally tends to shift as you age.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026

Now with distance, it impresses as a skilled piece of political moviemaking, one that captures the era’s sense of moral compromise and queasy vengeance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 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

I kept my eyes on the light and ignored my heaving lungs, my queasy stomach.

From "The Honest Truth" by Dan Gemeinhart

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

Ethically, too, he felt queasier about the project.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 2, 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

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

In January 2015, I spent the longest, queasiest week of my life on a cruise ship filled with conspiracy theorists.

From The Guardian ● May 2, 2019

As the #MeToo movement approaches its anniversary, this feels like one of the queasiest revelations it has produced.

From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2018

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

Even coroners--not normally the queasiest of folk--can find themselves affected.

From Time Magazine Archive