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as in sick
affected with nausea after eating the last four pieces of the two-week-old pizza, he was feeling a little nauseous

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Recent Examples of nauseous Not long after her mom's nudge, India began feeling nauseous and missed her period. Emma Aerin Becker, Peoplemag, 5 Sep. 2024 Upon regularly feeling nauseous after eating and later becoming anaemic, doctors ran blood tests on Robertson to determine the underlying cause. Tanyel Mustafa, refinery29.com, 3 June 2024 A lot of people feel really nauseous, vomit, have gastrointestinal problems on these drugs. Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 9 July 2024 Exposure to toxic fumes can cause people to feel dizzy, nauseous, or experience headaches or cramping. Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 20 June 2024 See all Example Sentences for nauseous 
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Adjective
  • All but one of those patients had been exposed to sick cattle or poultry on farms.
    Erika Edwards, NBC News, 7 Nov. 2024
  • There is no cure for a sick heart, definitely not in Ferrante’s universe, where desire burns down to an ember that lingers, waiting to be fanned and catch fire.
    Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 4 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • Trump is disgusting, unhinged and unfit to represent the United States.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Oliver Stone calls John Wick 4 'disgusting beyond belief' Star Keanu Reeves was the film's main selling point, but his box office pull had considerably weakened since his glory days in the 1990s.
    Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 24 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • For the evening, the stews break out their coral dresses instead of blacks which are pretty awful.
    Emma Soren, Vulture, 12 Nov. 2024
  • Jean Dujardin, the French actor who won an Academy Award for that awful silent-movie spoof The Artist, is almost unrecognizable in On the Wandering Paths (Sur les chemins noirs).
    Armond White, National Review, 1 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • The movie Sundown was shot on location in Texarkana, Tex., and features many locals in small parts, imbuing the movie with a queasy realism.
    Declan Gallagher and Chris Bellamy, EW.com, 31 Oct. 2024
  • But there’s also a pathos to the character that makes his queasy deal easier to stomach.
    Hershal Pandya, Vulture, 28 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • Give Back To Maui After the horrible 2023 wildfires in Maui, The Ritz-Carlton, Kapalua reopened on October 8, 2023, and it’s been going strong and welcoming guests with open arms since then.
    Robin Raven, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
  • This is also a great matchup against a horrible Jaguars passing defense.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 3 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • Next she was wrenched the other way in a sickening, 180° roll, and one of the crew members tumbled down the almost-vertical deck and vanished in the sea.
    Orval C. Johnson, Outdoor Life, 31 Oct. 2024
  • What was sickening about being there in person was watching the Trump fans around me and realizing that there was nothing shocking about it to them.
    Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • Watch on Hulu Queenie Queenie Jenkins (Dionne Brown) is a Jamaican-British twentysomething whose world is thrown into an upheaval following an ugly breakup with her boyfriend.
    Jennifer M. Wood, WIRED, 5 Nov. 2024
  • The lake replaced an ugly swath of the dry bed of the Salt River that cut through the heart of downtown Tempe and spurred an influx of employment and luxury housing on the coveted waterfront real estate.
    Jessica Boehm, Axios, 1 Nov. 2024
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  • The Menendez trials — the first of the two ended in a mistrial due to a hung jury — became such a sensation in part because of the hideous nature of the crime, but also because of who Lyle and Erik were.
    Jen Chaney, Vulture, 20 Sep. 2024
  • Is this just how the game unfolds each time, part of some hideous narrative doomed to repeat itself?
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2024

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“Nauseous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nauseous. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

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