squeamishness

Example Sentences

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Private-credit executives say the squeamishness is overdone, that institutional investors are still putting money into private credit and that the industry’s overall performance is strong.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026

"Be careful they can jump," he says, laughing at my squeamishness.

From BBC • Apr. 12, 2026

In the United States, there’s a lot of squeamishness about using the term oligarch to describe people who have and use wealth-power.

From Slate • Nov. 15, 2024

Global warming has certainly changed in the two decades since that conversation, but apparently Hollywood's squeamishness about fully acknowledging that reality has not.

From Salon • Jul. 22, 2024

Initially I had thought with hard work I could overcome a fundamental squeamishness and distaste for my subject, that perhaps with even harder work I could simulate something like a talent for it.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt