sickening
adjective
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sicken
verb (used with or without object)
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putrid, nasty, stinking, gross, foul, revolting, tainted, nauseating, diseased, distasteful, icky, loathsome, nauseous, noisome, offensive, repugnant, repulsive, rottenExamples from the Web for sickening
Contemporary Examples of sickening
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.
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.
As Gawain rides along the bank of a creek, he hears this sickening sound ringing from above.
Historical Fiction: A Conversation Between Bruce Holsinger and Nancy BilyeauNancy Bilyeau, Bruce Holsinger
March 30, 2014
Historical Examples of sickening
When I last wrote, on the Somme in 1915, I was sickening with typhoid fever.
Ballads of a BohemianRobert W. Service
A sickening conviction came that it was the dreaded influenza.
ThoroughbredsW. A. Fraser
I had read the "Extra," with all its sickening details, and so handed it back to him.
The UnderdogF. Hopkinson Smith
It was sickening to see, because I knew what was going to happen.
American NotesRudyard Kipling
Such symptoms, when a disease of the kind is rife, are usually the signs of sickening.
Little DorritCharles Dickens