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sickening
[ sik-uh-ning ]
adjective
- causing or capable of causing sickness, especially nausea, disgust, or loathing:
sickening arrogance.
Synonyms: loathsome, disgusting, nauseating
sickening
/ ˈsɪkənɪŋ /
adjective
- causing sickness or revulsion
- informal.extremely annoying
Derived Forms
- ˈsickeningly, adverb
Other Words From
- sicken·ing·ly adverb
Word History and Origins
Origin of sickening1
Example Sentences
As Sojourner Gibbs pulled out of her parking space at a Sam’s Club in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, one afternoon last summer, she felt the familiar, sickening symptoms of diabetic shock.
The inhumane treatment of the Haitian refugees is utterly sickening.
Behind the pulse pounding against Pieciul’s temples was the sickening realization that a sow with a cub in a den was among the worst possible scenarios for a bear encounter.
That would also allow scientists to define the precise amount of chemo, so doctors wouldn’t have to over-treat patients with harsh drugs that create sickening side effects.
The immediate effects of the highly toxic drugs were catastrophic, sickening patients at times nearly to death.
Hot orange flames leap into the sky bringing with them the sickening, inescapable stench of death.
Lack of elaboration is a virus that continually infects the book, sometimes having a sickening effect on the reader.
His giddy glee turns sickening when you consider the coldhearted inhumanity that necessarily lies beneath.
By then he was blue in the face, a sickening color, like an old hematoma.
They absolutely must boycott this absurd, insane, sickening, repulsive, shameful, and at the same time shame-less circus.
With sickening repugnance, I seized the Thing by its two broad shoulders and rolled it over.
The station building gave sickening creaks; then it toppled with a crash.
It is not only annoying, but absolutely sickening to some, and a truly lady-like person will avoid all such topics.
Aristide composed his face into an expression of parental interest; but within him there was shivering and sickening upheaval.
It was like an old pain returning at an unexpected moment to chill a man with the sickening reminder that all joy must end.
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