How To Use Squeamish In A Sentence
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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.
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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
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1. 4Lady Macbeth speaks in soliloquy about driving a implicitly squeamish Mac. to seize a throne.
Philadelphia Reflections: Shakspere Society of Philadelphia
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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.
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But at least the liberal men should feel squeamish about it.
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The battle we really are engaged in - and we are too squeamish to describe - is against a particular brand of fundamentalism.
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Neither is likely to be squeamish about investing in coal.
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Oddly, eating meat didn't make me feel squeamish or sick.
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We get squeamish when it comes to reproductive rights.
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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
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If you have a high squeamish factor and still wish to buy pre-owned, examine the mattress carefully for the telltale signs of infestation, and place it in a protective encasement before you bring it into your home.
Jennifer Grayson: Eco Etiquette: Used Mattresses - Icky Or Eco?
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It's clear that if the regime thinks it can get away with murdering foreign journalists it won't be squeamish about dealing with its internal opposition.
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'The Silence of the Lambs' is an entertaining but violent movie and is not for the squeamish.
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If you're squeamish about a bit of grit, best wait until the revival has spread its gloss a little more widely.
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If you're squeamish about insects, skip this story.
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What matters more than obsessing over details is being clear that you will not be bound by squeamish political correctness.
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All things considered, perhaps it was more tasteful and less squeamish to leave them out altogether.
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In order to tell a story, there must be some elbowroom, some breathing space, some hcense - otherwise you become as squeamish as a vegetarian.
An Autobiography
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Our predecessors, as journalists and readers, were far less squeamish.
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I oppose the death penalty, but not for Stephen's squeamish reasons that one innocent person in 100 might get hanged, My opposition is more visceral than that.
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If you're squeamish or easily offended, this one is a lock to knock you off the deep end, as Daughters of Darkness is bathed in depraved moments.
GreenCine Daily: DVDs, 11/1.
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‘I'm never squeamish and I don't usually get upset when I see a body,’ she says.
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If you saw this film, you're probably still squeamish about committing family activities to video tape.
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Even the odor of my Calcutta washerman, redolent with the fragrance of castor oil, was too much for my unchastised squeamishness; and as to assafoetida, the favorite condiment of our Aryan cousins, I was so uncatholic as to bring away from India the same aversion to it that I had carried out there.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875
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In short, they are not squeamish or unduly troubled by conscience when it comes to hurting us two-legged animals.
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so squeamish he would only touch the toilet handle with his elbow
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Once I even got to hang around backstage, but felt rather squeamish about being the hundredth idiot to say, "Gee, I like your music".
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If that weren't true, I may have squeamishly helped out at Special Olympics once or twice.
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But why be squeamish about fine points and legal niceties when we're at war?
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I am actually quite squeamish and don't like the sight of blood.
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In other matters he was less squeamish.
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They have no squeamishness whatever about his watching their own natatorial duties; why, then, should he shrink within himself and wave them off?
Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama
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‘It was very well made, but not for the squeamish,’ he said.
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We have become squeamish about bones and fat but they are things to relish when roasting.
The Sun
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`I would rather not touch,' he said squeamishly
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The public needs to be realistic about what they are paying for and less squeamish in how it is presented.
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'The Silence of the Lambs' is an entertaining but violent movie and is not for the squeamish.
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Most Africans have a very close relationship with the land, even the city people, who are squeamish about bugs and scared to death of gorillas.
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‘We'll have to think about transferring some suspects to our less squeamish allies,’ he says.
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Neither is likely to be squeamish about investing in coal.
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I've heard of guys that had killed a man feelin 'squeamish over it -- with ghosts visitin' them at night; an 'sufferin' a lot of mental torture.
'Drag' Harlan
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Neither is likely to be squeamish about investing in coal.
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I can only note that the English-language press is far more squeamish about publishing grisly images than their continental European cousins.
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They might get squeamish at the sight of blood or faint when thinking about it or are looking at it.
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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.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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I'm really quite squeamish about it.
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I am actually quite squeamish and don't like the sight of blood.
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Heyday! but here is an odd evincement of gratitude!" de Montors retorted; "and though I am not particularly squeamish, let me tell you, my fine fellow, I do not ordinarily fight with lackeys.
Domnei A Comedy of Woman-Worship
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She's really squeamish and can't stand the sight of blood.
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he refused to allow squeamishness to deter him from his duty
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He is clearly a bit squeamish.
The Sun
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Faecal matter and toilet paper are never shown, perhaps reflecting American squeamishness, though evidence of anal intercourse and vaginal bruising is spoken of like tennis scores.
Archive 2005-07-01
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It seems oversubtle to charge me with "squeamishness" when I have admitted to finding Miss Blais's horror stories "ludicrous.
Exorcising Demons
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And you complained about our “sissiness” while simultaneously admitting that you let your squeamishness set your politics.
Homophobic men and Misogyny–do they go hand in hand?
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She's really squeamish and can't stand the sight of blood.
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She's really squeamish and can't stand the sight of blood.
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While much of the population understandably gets squeamish at the idea of businesses making money out of the elderly and the disadvantaged, there is a market that has to be served.
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To be sure, it's no sort of a place for a squeamish person, aboard a loaded schooner whose mudhook clutches bottom while the sea flings her about, but the masters and crews of coal-luggers are not squeamish.
Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916
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He was an editor who hated screen violence, and vulgarisms - ‘squeamish’, she called him - and there were constant battles over her copy.
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He is a pyrotechnically good critic, not least because he is not squeamish about putting himself in the picture.
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Thomson accepts, however, that the British are still somewhat squeamish about the sight of the very rich being congratulated about doing good.
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As most of you know, I am extremely squeamish, so I spent the appointment trying to read my book (naturally) while the chiropodist was working.
ME Again « Tales from the Reading Room
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Now I might just warn you girls, if you are squeamish and don't like the sight of men in the raw, then don't bother to check the link.
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Is there anyone else who is squeamish about this sort of public investigation into a nominee's personal religious beliefs?
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In their boasts, dissidents are lady-killers; in their writings, they are squeamish, priggish, and prudish.
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My young companions, who, as I have observed, had only preceded me six months in the service, were already grown old in depravity; they laughed at my squeamishness, called me "milksop" and "boarding-school miss," and soon made me as bad as themselves.
Frank Mildmay Or, The Naval Officer
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He said: 'I am not squeamish about tackling the enormity of cutting public spending.
The Sun
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Here the sensuous wooing of the traditional lover is replaced by a display of coy and squeamish chastity.
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Some Asian countries are squeamish about the effect of non-traditional security on their sovereignty. They should swallow hard.
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I'm quite squeamish so none of this was particularly easy for me.
The Sun
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The squeamish will be relieved to know that all surgery and injections are carried out while the aircraft are on the ground because the risk of turbulence is too high to perform operations in flight.
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Is it that the United States has grown more moral in the last 50 years - or, depending on your point of view, more squeamish?
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For those who are not squeamish, balut is a ripe duck egg containing a one-week-old chick, boiled in water for 10 to 15 minutes and then served as it is.
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Yet people then were often less squeamish in this respect.
The Times Literary Supplement
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He lacked the fear of the infant, the squeamish dissociation which paralyses less manly men.
THE BIRTHDAY OF THE WORLD
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Bear with me while I list them, and apologies to the squeamish.
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If the idea of commingling bodies with the Earth makes you feel a little squeamish, some of the methods used by conventional cemeteries to keep bodies boxed forever aren't much nicer.
Terrain Magazine
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And squeamishness prevented me looking for a tiny insect to place on a sticky dewdrop leaf.
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We are, it seems to me, becoming far too squeamish about such interactions.
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Peter understands the church's squeamishness about eating unclean foods and staying in a nonkosher home; Peter had gulped a little himself.
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Entomology became more fashionable once better killing bottles provided the squeamish with a less offensive method of collecting specimens.
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We could debate endlessly the role of such squeamishness in concealing and exacerbating the problem with race relations in both Pittsburgh and Pennsylvania.
Storming the media bastille « BuzzMachine
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** After all, the only danger copepods can create for humans is when they act as vectors for dracunculiasis aka guinea worms (don't click this link if you're squeamish and for god's sake, do NOT do an image search for guinea worm.
Kate rothwell
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Now I can tell you right here there was no pain involved, but if you're squeamish about things happening to eyes, then change channels right now…
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The stories in Typhon focus on some heavy themes, and aren't for the squeamish.
Boing Boing
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And squeamishness prevented me looking for a tiny insect to place on a sticky dewdrop leaf.
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So it's strange, therefore, and not a little paranoid of the family to be squeamish about the book, because the only truly unflattering portrait painted here is that of its author.
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People can get squeamish about wings.
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There is an understandable squeamishness among law-makers about what we used to call "mountaineering", climbing anything that rose out of the ground.
Six Nations 2011: England still need to get rid of their stutter | Eddie Butler
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The word foodie itself, turns out, was borne from the very squeamishness the word can incite today.
Thestar.com - Home Page
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America is less squeamish about allowing wealthy people to use their privilege to help charitable causes, he said.
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The online reviewing biz is not for the squeamish - our turnover rate is high, with the average writer lasting less time than fresh cilantro in the crisper.
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As for being a woman writer who treats violence that way -- well, I've heard my work called "castrated" (books have testicles?) and "squeamish," actually -- both of which make me laugh.
Cat V. Monkey - Last Tango In Paris
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What interrogation tactics would make both the FBI and the CIA squeamish about their field officers' participation?
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In particular, is the U.S. media too squeamish about running photos of dead and wounded soldiers?
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Blood flows as easy as ant spray at the Tavern, but in a really squeamish, sickening way.
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Of such squeamish pettifoggery are cultural declines made!
Socialist Hate Speech of Antiquity, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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My young companions, who, as I have observed, had only preceded me six months in the service, were already grown old in depravity; they laughed at my squeamishness, called me, "milksop" and
Frank Mildmay The Naval Officer
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It was one thing for intimates to make light of Shawn's squeamish quirks, but he was an outsider goofing on a dignified old man whose job he was about to take.
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Daddy has a Robert De Niro kind of understated menace and when you see him at work with his barber's blade, the effect is to make your internal organs shrink with squeamish empathy.
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This has made me quite squeamish.
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the program was withdrawn because of the squeamishness of some viewers
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With a history of con artists using small companies as a base to defraud the public, anything that smacks of looser controls makes regulators squeamish.
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Sagging baggies, tattoos, false nails and hair, piercings, what are we of a certain age and with squeamish sensibilities, to make of such modishness?
Crack Attack!
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The squeamish and easily offended will find a lot to complain about, but what's new?
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What matters more than obsessing over details is being clear that you will not be bound by squeamish political correctness.
Times, Sunday Times
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If you're squeamish about a bit of grit, best wait until the revival has spread its gloss a little more widely.
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But they are often less squeamish than adults.
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We get squeamish when it comes to reproductive rights.
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No detail is spared and the squeamish can count on skipping huge wodges of forensic jargon, which is no bad thing.
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Hey - squeamish website, honourable search around some blogs, seems a pretty overnice program you are using.
Martin Campbell Likens The Green Lantern Film to Iron Man in Tone
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Are you that squeamish about sex to even SAY the word "vibrator" , even when it isn't used in a directly sexual context?
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
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This, and the white emigree from Africa to America point to the absurdity of both the term African-American and the squeamishness of people who, for some reason, cannot say, “black.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » OK, Parse This for an Israeli or Armenian Lawyer Who Works at Your Firm:
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I didn't mind eating the meat at all, but at that age I was just a little bit too squeamish to join in enthusiastically gnawing away at the poor little bunny's bones.
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You always was a squeamish, obstropulous little thing, Ellen.
Joanna Godden
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One doesn't have to be a right-to-lifer to feel squeamish about harvesting organs from a second-trimester fetus.
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The prudish and squeamish might want to look away now.
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A nurse specialist who has used maggots for ten years says that her colleagues are squeamish.
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If you are a bit squeamish when it comes to mice and cockroaches, maybe this isn't the job for you as you'd be required to feed hand bred mice and cockies to your sick and injured patients.
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If you're of a squeamish nature, get the fishmonger to gut them for you.
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That there's a profile of Mr. Jorden in Opera News says a lot about the magazine — current editor Paul Driscoll doesn't suffer from what Mr. Kellow calls "squeamishness" about some controversy — as well as the hipper, more technophilic and media-friendly environment of the Met under its current general manager, Peter Gelb.
The Bewitching Art of 'La Cieca'
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I'm not squeamish, and it was fascinating to watch the incision and lifting out of the uterus, but when the puppies themselves were brought into the world, it was too much for me.
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She's really squeamish and can't stand the sight of blood.
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There was also evidence before the jury that Adams was not a violent man and was squeamish at the sight of blood.
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Yet rejection of DIY killing and eating pet animals is increasingly cast as "squeamish" - shirking a necessary evil like cleaning up vomit instead of shirking voluntary and unnecessary violence.
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That would really test the mettle of squeamish ministers.
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The squeamish may feel their pulses flutter at times, but the geeky, the prurient, and the gothic will find much to savor.
