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queasy

[kwee-zee] / ˈkwi zi /


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Plus, this year’s Rush Week revealed a queasy new strategy to thin the recruiting ranks.

From Slate Sep. 18, 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

Some said they did have side effects, with one feeling tired and a bit queasy "almost like nerves" when he first started but adding he felt that was worth it for the results he saw.

From BBC Aug. 17, 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

Kendra eased over to the table, a queasy feeling in her stomach.

From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull

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

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

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




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