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Meanings of squeamish in English

Excessively fastidious and easily disgusted.

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Examples for "nice"
Examples for "nice"
1
I don't mean 'nice' the way she means 'nice,' either; don't worry.
Revolutionary Road
2
Conditions should be similar to yesterday and it's really nice, good ground.
The Guardian
3
Anyhow, the New Russians were soon given a nice present by Yeltsin.
The Guardian
4
Claudio was nice, available, honest, and did the work right on time.
Wired
5
It has been really nice the kind words that come my way.
News.com.au
1
Sweet and dainty were the damsels, alike in raiment and in face.
French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France
2
And a jade platter of dainty food calls for a million coins.
Throne of Jade
3
It ripples in dainty dance, or tumbles down in cascades of joy.
Spirit and Music
4
In the open doorway she shone, looking the smallest of dainty things.
The Research Magnificent
5
He swung the dainty mite up in his arms and kissed her.
The Jungle Girl
1
I heard paper rustle, then Dew continued in his prissy, high voice.
Bones of the Lost
2
So thanks for your prissy little reminder but I already paid, right?
The Irish Times
3
When he spoke, he sounded truly prissy, enunciating vowels for utmost effect.
Mysterious Skin
4
The approach is latter-day Jane Austen, but prissy and without the style.
The Irish Times
5
A prissy looking listing agent was waiting, tapping his watch in admonition.
Secret of the seventh son
1
Like everything else in the marquis's domain, the Dedicates' Keep was overnice.
The Lair of Bones
2
What was she trying to say with her dark hints and overnice scruples of a Puritan conscience?
Heralds of Empire / Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieu...
3
We are not overnice, Nicolo.
To Have and to Hold
4
Don't be overnice in your exactions; if she is even a fairly good cook, waitress, and laundress, you are indeed blessed among women.
The Complete Home
Usage of squeamish in English
1
Listen, none of us is 'zactly squeamish -know what I mean?
Anno Dracula
2
The intimate footage has both shocked and fascinated the squeamish American public.
The Irish Times
3
Hence, even the most squeamish should be able to enjoy the game.
The South African
4
If you're squeamish, we could just avoid the room with the body.
Shadow's son
5
She wasn't particularly squeamish, but wasn't interested in watching a dissection, either.
Star trek: terok nor: dawn of the eagles
6
He wasn't squeamish, nor was he cowered by CG's reputation and power.
The capitol game
7
The autopsy and sex-change operation, in particular, are very not-safe-for-work and not-safe-for-the-squeamish.
Wired
8
I felt squeamish; yet I could not refuse to take the trip.
The devil in the white city: murder, magic & madness and the fai...
9
Want to watch, or are you squeamish about needles puncturing human skin?'
Number9Dream
10
Her description of what their removal involved was not for the squeamish.
The Guardian
11
The morally squeamish intellectual may be shocked by this kind of thing.
Brave new world revisited
12
He surprised me by being nowhere near as squeamish as I'd expected.
The Wise Man’s Fear
13
One wonders why the Duc should have been squeamish on this point.
She Stands Accused
14
CAREER in outdoor education is not for the squeamish or faint hearted.
The Irish Times
15
I got squeamish just now watching the nurse sew up Pip's foot.
Safe harbour
16
I never knew that Sari had a squeamish bone in her body.
The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb
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United States of America
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United Kingdom
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