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Synonyms for sickening
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : sik-uh-ning |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈsɪk ə nɪŋ |
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Définition of sickening
Origin :- "falling sick," 1725; "causing revulsion, disgust, or nausea," 1789, present participle adjective from sicken. Related: Sickeningly.
- adj disgusting, awful
- When I last wrote, on the Somme in 1915, I was sickening with typhoid fever.
- Extract from : « Ballads of a Bohemian » by Robert W. Service
- A sickening conviction came that it was the dreaded influenza.
- Extract from : « Thoroughbreds » by W. A. Fraser
- I had read the "Extra," with all its sickening details, and so handed it back to him.
- Extract from : « The Underdog » by F. Hopkinson Smith
- It was sickening to see, because I knew what was going to happen.
- Extract from : « American Notes » by Rudyard Kipling
- Such symptoms, when a disease of the kind is rife, are usually the signs of sickening.
- Extract from : « Little Dorrit » by Charles Dickens
- A sickening vision of that first night in Paris swam before her.
- Extract from : « The Incomplete Amorist » by E. Nesbit
- The simple words fell upon my ears with a sickening finality.
- Extract from : « Ruggles of Red Gap » by Harry Leon Wilson
- It's sickening, but I am afraid we must pass those tickets on.
- Extract from : « Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 8, 1914 » by Various
- Anyway, it did not sell, coming back every time with sickening regularity.
- Extract from : « People of Position » by Stanley Portal Hyatt
- Why I ever made such a sickening ass of myself, I can't think.
- Extract from : « The Eldest Son (Second Series Plays) » by John Galsworthy
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