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Queasy   Listen
adjective
Queasy  adj.  
1.
Sick at the stomach; affected with nausea; inclined to vomit; qualmish.
2.
Fastidious; squeamish; delicate; easily disturbed; unsettled; ticklish. " A queasy question." "Some seek, when queasy conscience has its qualms."





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"Queasy" Quotes from Famous Books



... life comes next? Patience a moment! Grant I have mastered learning's crabbed text, Still there's the comment. 60 Let me know all! Prate not of most or least, Painful or easy! Even to the crumbs I'd fain eat up the feast, Aye, nor feel queasy." Oh, such a life as he resolved to live, 65 When he had learned it, When he had gathered all books had to give! Sooner, he spurned it. Image the whole, then execute the parts— Fancy the fabric 70 Quite, ere you build, ere steel strike ...
— Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning • Robert Browning
... however, insisted that they should all be ordered back again. "Not that the noise and clamour of women folk makes any odds to me," said the grim old warrior, "I've seen too many towns taken for that, but it might make the lad queasy, and cost him a thumb ...
— The Armourer's Prentices • Charlotte M. Yonge
... valour, and confirmed honesty. I will teach you how to humour your cousin, that she shall fall in love with Benedick; and I, with your two helps, will so practise on Benedick that, in despite of his quick wit and his queasy stomach, he shall fall in love with Beatrice. If we can do this, Cupid is no longer an archer: his glory shall be ours, for we are the only love-gods. Go in with me, and I ...
— Much Ado About Nothing • William Shakespeare [Craig, Oxford edition]


Words linked to "Queasy" :   vile, nauseating, troubled, sickening, sick, offensive, nauseous, unwholesome, queasiness, nervous, anxious, ill, sickish


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