squeamish
adjective
fastidious or dainty.
oversqueamish
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a word derived from
squeamish.
Example Sentences
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It was a lengthy ditty, and in its wording not oversqueamish; the Queen’s career in England was detailed without any stuttering, and you would have found the catalogue unhandsome.
From Chivalry by James Branch Cabell
I ain't oversqueamish, but that is too confounded mean!
From Hector's Inheritance, Or, the Boys of Smith Institute by Horatio Alger
It was a lengthy ditty and in its wording not oversqueamish; the Queen's career in England was detailed without any stuttering, and you would have found the catalogue unhandsome.
From Chivalry by Elizabeth Shippen Green Elliott
