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sickening
[ sik-uh-ning ]
adjective
- causing or capable of causing sickness, especially nausea, disgust, or loathing:
sickening arrogance.
Synonyms: , ,
sickening
/ ˈɪəɪŋ /
adjective
- causing sickness or revulsion
- informal.extremely annoying
Derived Forms
- ˈԾԲ, adverb
Other 51Թ Forms
- IJ·Բ· adverb
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of sickening1
Example Sentences
Victim Anthony Rudd said: "I found it absolutely sickening that you could look someone in the eye, shake their hand, and then rob them."
Domoic acid outbreak killing and sickening marine mammals and birds along Southern California coast.
However, Terry Deary, author of Horrible Histories, described them as "sickening artefacts", adding: "These are two books I'd like to burn."
The deportation campaign of undocumented immigrants is about what I expected, although the sickening spectacle they are making of it is even more grotesque than I thought it would be.
Phillipson previously called political attempts to halt the bill "utterly sickening", telling BBC Radio 4's Today programme the children's bill was "the single biggest piece of children safeguarding legislation in a generation".
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