sickening
sickening
Definition
sick·en·ing (-iŋ)
adjective
- causing sickness or nausea
- disgusting or revolting
sick′·en·ingly adverb
sickening
Synonyms
sickening
modif.
sickening
Usage Examples
Adjective complement with noun phrase
- find: Like many people who are bullied, she felt she could not escape and found the whole experience sickening.
Infinitive complement
- think: It's sickening to think back to how I was and what I ate.
- see: They all deserve what they have got, but it is very sickening to see certain other names in the same lists.
- watch: This has been so sickening to watch him use the hell out of you!
- hear: How sickening to hear so many Americans cheering to such utter trash.
Modifies a noun
- thud: Dad landed with yet another sickening thud, this time at the base of his spine.
- certainty: This I can tell you with a sickening certainty.
- sight: Anthony Vickers ' Blog England exit is crying shame - It's the most sickening sight in football.
- crash: At approximately 3.00 am there was a sickening crash which wakened everyone instantly.
- feeling: A sickening feeling starts to grow from the pit of my stomach.
- blow: Ako pushed his way through and delivered a sickening blow to the beast's head.
Modifying Another Word
- truly: Wonderful, and the same time truly sickening in only ways that an ode to gravy can be!
- quite: The continuous crack and thud of bullets was quite sickening.
- just: She said: " The whole thing is just sickening.
- so: I've got to check with my manager, I've got to check with... " So sickening.
- rather: From this point onward, events happened at a rather sickening pace.
- very: They all deserve what they have got, but it is very sickening to see certain other names in the same lists.
Used with adjective complement
- become: Charlie Whitaker | 11:10, Friday 29 April 2005 comment The Guardian has become sickening lately.
sickening Quotes
I know not how it wasöbut, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit There was aniciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heartöan unredeemed dreariness of thought which no goading of the imagination could torture into aught of the sublime.
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