Adjective : to feel nauseous. ,a nauseous display of greed. From Dictionary.com.
As each man sipped his tea he found it nauseously salt. From Wordnik.com. [Three Years in Tristan da Cunha] Reference
I'm not nauseously optimistic, or cautiously nauseous at this point. From Wordnik.com. [Get Ready! Here's How Your Info Will Come In] Reference
Her stomach trembled nauseously as she remembered the previous evening. From Wordnik.com. [Yesterday's Echoes]
Then again, some images are so nauseously sentimental they are surreal. From Wordnik.com. [This week's new exhibitions] Reference
Her heart started beating frantically fast, her stomach churning nauseously. From Wordnik.com. [Yesterday's Echoes]
Any attempt to recreate it will seem "twee" at best and "nauseously self-involved" at worst. From Wordnik.com. [12/15/01 Tonight I went to] Reference
And when it comes it is so dry, & nauseously sweet that I gag it up into a napkin and start scraping my tongue with a fork. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-07-01] Reference
"Eisell was absynthites, or wormwood wine, a nauseously bitter medicament then much in use," Pepys 'friends must have had a very singular taste, for he records, on the 24th November, 1660. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 48, September 28, 1850] Reference
What did the nauseously spunky Ray do to incur the wrath of the Malkinoids?. From Wordnik.com. [Firedoglake] Reference
His heavy heart seemed to be resting nauseously upon the pit of his stomach. From Wordnik.com. [The Grain of Dust] Reference
I myself used to find the invocation of that false category nauseously banal. From Wordnik.com. [GreenCine Daily] Reference
As I scrambled nauseously on the shaky coach floor, I felt a hand on my shoulder. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
The motion was worse than ever; the fumes of the exhaust blew nauseously from the stern over them in the cockpit. From Wordnik.com. [What Happened to the Corbetts]
But with her latest admission that she used to find Russell Brand nauseously annoying, we're right there with her. From Wordnik.com. [WalesOnline - Home] Reference
Simcoe, however, there is much to be said in the way of just commendation, and the inscription is not so nauseously fulsome us to excite disgust. From Wordnik.com. [Canadian Notabilities, Volume 1] Reference
Girls are tied by conventions; they cannot even express admiration in fitting language; they may giggle or cackle so that every ripple of laughter and every turn of a phrase sounds nauseously insincere. From Wordnik.com. [A Dream of the North Sea] Reference
The roots, and to some extent the leaves, are used in medicine; the inner bark and all the herbaceous parts are nauseously bitter; it is regarded as a purgative, emetic, and alexipharmic; in overdoses it is an acrid poison. From Wordnik.com. [Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture] Reference
They had washed down the last of the unsavory lunch with the tepid, nauseously alkaline water from the olla when a gust of wind of tremendous proportions tore open the door flap and filled the room with a blinding swirl of sand. From Wordnik.com. [The Forbidden Trail] Reference
"Conspiracy of Gowrie", which is by Rough; an imitation of "Gebir", with some poetry; but miserably and hopelessly deficient in all else: every character reasoning, and metaphorising, and metaphysicking the reader most nauseously. From Wordnik.com. [Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1.] Reference
She had come on to a man she didn't know-a; total and complete 'stranger-a man who" She swallowed nauseously, remembering the way she had looked, the way she had behaved'the things she had said. From Wordnik.com. [The Demetrios Virgin]
Violently, nauseously green. From Wordnik.com. [Meadow Creek is Green! at cvillenews.com] Reference
She shuddered nauseously again. From Wordnik.com. [A Time to Dream]
Steve nauseously bemoaned, "where would all the fat from the bacon-wrapped Duck and Chicken go?. From Wordnik.com. [FAZED] Reference
And with past service, nauseously repeated. From Wordnik.com. [The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 07] Reference
He shuddered nauseously. From Wordnik.com. [A Collection of Stories] Reference
"What's soon obtain'd, we nauseously receive. From Wordnik.com. [The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter] Reference
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