Example Sentences

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Decades of lionizing men like Nile Jarvis have made his detestable personality not just easy to spot, but queasily appealing.

From Salon • Nov. 19, 2025

There is also remarkable unused footage from Ray Müller’s queasily accommodating 1993 profile “The Wonderful Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl.”

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 12, 2025

“At its strongest,” she added, “‘Gone Girl’ plays like a queasily, at times gleefully, funny horror movie about a modern marriage.”

From New York Times • Feb. 6, 2023

At times, her descriptions of cooking were mouth-wateringly vivid or queasily evocative, as when she recalled removing marrow from beef bones to make the sauce for bifteck sauté bercy.

From Washington Post • Nov. 1, 2022

I was nervous and baffled and queasily excited all at the same time.

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs