as in sick
affected with nausea
some passengers felt a little qualmish after the bumpy landing on the airstrip
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Adjective
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Most cases were blamed on direct contact with sick animals, except for three that have befuddled investigators who failed to identify a likely source.—
Alexander Tin,
CBS News,
28 Jan. 2025 -
There’s just an element of danger to a lot of these things, and then getting sick and having to survive that and then writing those stories and living through that with my bandmates… There’s sort of a tension and a release that’s built into every one of these songs.—
Maya Georgi,
Rolling Stone,
27 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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The Years Last summer, more squeamish audience members were fainting left, right and center at this adaptation of the French writer Annie Ernaux’s quasi-memoir.—
Matt Wolf,
New York Times,
3 Jan. 2025
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Arriving at a time when anime has become more surreal, Dan Da Dan feels like a natural evolution of shows like Chainsaw Man, while being not quite as alienating for those with a more squeamish palate.—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
19 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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Turkeys and chickens typically become severely ill and die soon after they are infected.—
Emily Anthes,
New York Times,
23 Jan. 2025
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President Donald Trump’s threats aimed at strong-arming Moscow into ending its war in Ukraine have been badly received by some politicians and nationalists in Russia who say his tactics bode ill for a deal.—
Reuters,
NBC News,
23 Jan. 2025
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“Qualmish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/qualmish. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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