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Meanings of sickening in English

Causing or able to cause nausea.

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Usage of sickening in English
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Almost 10 years ago a story emerged detailing a particularly sickening crime.
The Irish Times
2
She earlier called the attack a sickening act that targeted young people.
Radio NZ
3
With sickening dread he searched in the corners; he found them: A.
Flamsted quarries
4
The heavens tell me so; the curling leaves whisper the sickening message.
The Black Phantom
5
And in one sickening second, Storm knew exactly what had done it.
Wild Storm
6
The thought of his actual position swamped the sickening disgust at tailordom.
Evan Harrington — Complete
7
The pain in his left arm and the sickening odour nauseated him.
Old Rose and Silver
8
It wasn't just the new damage to structures or the sickening graffiti.
The Wyrmling Horde
9
But there is no romance in trench fighting; it is sickening, demoralizing.
The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine / The Eur...
10
The young woman now in the far West is a sickening example.
The Hollow of Her Hand
11
The Liberal government's blindness to the dangers of climate change is sickening.
The Guardian
12
Once I was let in for that and it was pretty sickening.
The Spanish Chest
13
The very moment he saw it Denys said in a sickening whisper-
The Cloister and the Hearth
14
The politics of theater is as sickening as the theater of politics.
The sonderberg case
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The stench and sickening odor of dead men and horses were terrible.
"Co. Aytch," Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment / Or, A Side ...
16
Mary, watching across the room, had come to the same-forher, sickening-conclusion
The lady elizabeth
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