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Meanings of sickening in English
Causing or able to cause nausea.
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Examples for "offensive"
Examples for "offensive"
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Since Israel's Gaza offensive 18 months ago, cross-border violence has largely abated.
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Bryant had an offensive way of dismissing what he called 'ordinary crime'.
3
What is particularly offensive is the way the government has announced this.
4
What's more, there are serious legal consequences for using this offensive term.
5
The next criticism is a related one: the great 'straw man' offensive.
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We condemn vile personal smears of this nature, the Liberal Party said.
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He said: This is scaremongering in its most extreme and vile form.
3
Recordings also captured Mr Somyurek using vile language against colleagues and staff.
4
They encountered vile weather and tempest-tossed seas off the South American coast.
5
Perhaps the vilest of the vile once were ministers of the Gospel.
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The whole place seemed to him hideous and loathsome in the extreme.
2
The oysters had a terrible look in their eyes and were loathsome.
3
The day brought forth another loathsome fact in connection with the case.
4
That we're in debt, owe hundreds of pounds, the whole loathsome truth.
5
So alone that anyone, anything no matter how loathsome would be welcome.
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Some people appreciate the bitter olive; others feel it to be nauseous.
2
I was suffocating and needed air; I was nauseous, light-headed almost disorientated.
3
Just looking at the bacon left on the platter made me nauseous.
4
A day without it and we start to feel dizzy and nauseous.
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And she was suffocating with the nauseous sweetness of the bridal flowers.
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The radiation produced by the adjacent power core made Shaz feel queasy.
2
Overdo them, however, and they can leave you feeling bloated and queasy.
3
The idea of hacking our way through that jungle made me queasy.
4
It took me months before I could taste sugar without feeling queasy.
5
He walked outside to study them, the sight making him feel queasy.
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What remained was a broken record of apocalyptic events and nauseating violence.
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For a brief nauseating moment he thought he was going to faint.
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The stench was crisply nauseating, with a cold torpor of lukewarm sea.
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Just the idea of trying to explain it to him was nauseating.
5
Check out the obsession with mirrors and the often nauseating camera angles.
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I destroyed the noisome thing and cast it into the waste-paper basket.
2
The heat was intolerably oppressive, and the air tainted with noisome exhalations.
3
This was now a noisome muddy carpet some two inches in thickness.
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The galley was a rackety, noisome trading-ship that plied along the coast.
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Overspread with bones and hair, it was noisome with worms and insects.
Usage of sickening in English
1
Almost 10 years ago a story emerged detailing a particularly sickening crime.
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She earlier called the attack a sickening act that targeted young people.
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With sickening dread he searched in the corners; he found them: A.
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The heavens tell me so; the curling leaves whisper the sickening message.
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And in one sickening second, Storm knew exactly what had done it.
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The thought of his actual position swamped the sickening disgust at tailordom.
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The pain in his left arm and the sickening odour nauseated him.
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It wasn't just the new damage to structures or the sickening graffiti.
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But there is no romance in trench fighting; it is sickening, demoralizing.
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The young woman now in the far West is a sickening example.
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The Liberal government's blindness to the dangers of climate change is sickening.
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Once I was let in for that and it was pretty sickening.
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The very moment he saw it Denys said in a sickening whisper-
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The politics of theater is as sickening as the theater of politics.
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The stench and sickening odor of dead men and horses were terrible.
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Mary, watching across the room, had come to the same-forher, sickening-conclusion
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