squeamish

How To Use squeamish In A Sentence

• For a squeamish diary writer it was enough to send me to the editor's well-stocked drinks cabinet for a nip of his favourite barley wine.
• We are overapt to apply our nineteenth century prejudices and prepossessions to the morality of the ancient Greeks who would have specimen'd such squeamishness in Attic salt. Arabian nights. English
• 1. 4Lady Macbeth speaks in soliloquy about driving a implicitly squeamish Mac. to seize a throne. Philadelphia Reflections: Shakspere Society of Philadelphia
• In the past couple of decades women have become noticeably less squeamish than men - so much so that feminine frankness has become hard to avoid. Times, Sunday Times
• But at least the liberal men should feel squeamish about it.
• The battle we really are engaged in - and we are too squeamish to describe - is against a particular brand of fundamentalism.
• Neither is likely to be squeamish about investing in coal. Times, Sunday Times
• Oddly, eating meat didn't make me feel squeamish or sick.
• We get squeamish when it comes to reproductive rights. Times, Sunday Times
• That was the first squeamishness the Pathan had shown of any kind, but men of his race would rather be tortured to death than hanged in a merciful hempen noose. In The Time Of Light