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UK
/kwˈiːzi/
]
[ US /ˈkwizi/ ]
[ US /ˈkwizi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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causing or able to cause nausea
nauseous offal
a nauseating smell
a sickening stench -
causing or fraught with or showing anxiety
spent an anxious night waiting for the test results
cast anxious glances behind her
those nervous moments before takeoff
an unquiet mind - feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit
How To Use queasy In A Sentence
- Israel has the better excuse, driven half mad by threats and wars and the suicide bombings of the Second Intifada; but a series of queasy concessions to the fanatical colonists who are sometimes miscalled "settlers" have deformed its politics from within. David Bromwich: Rules of Engagement from Baghdad to Gaza
- That queasy feeling of disillusionment is a universal one says Schmidt; one that makes this particular play accessible for audiences on a very personal level.
- The Liverpudlian singer was looking rather queasy as he took a spin on the merry-go-round. The Sun
- Under Kevin Sutley's direction, this production finds a queasy pace, coloured as much by the insane bingeing on stage as the emotional minefield it traverses.
- The medical point is to show the harmful effects fat has on our insides, and it's a queasy spectacle. Times, Sunday Times
- But a bus didn't stop me... just my queasy stomach. The Sun
- This made me a bit queasy. Times, Sunday Times
- But diplomats in Kinshasa are beginning to sound queasy.
- He is queasy about plans to set up a new group on the back benches. Times, Sunday Times
- It also carries with it the slightly queasy feeling that one naturally feels when trying to save the economy from imminent collapse. Times, Sunday Times