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sickening

[ sik-uh-ning ]

adjective

  1. causing or capable of causing sickness, especially nausea, disgust, or loathing:

    sickening arrogance.

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sickening

/ ˈɪəɪŋ /

adjective

  1. causing sickness or revulsion
  2. informal.
    extremely annoying
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Derived Forms

  • ˈԾԲ, adverb
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • IJ·Բ· adverb
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of sickening1

First recorded in 1715–25; sicken + -ing 2
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Victim Anthony Rudd said: "I found it absolutely sickening that you could look someone in the eye, shake their hand, and then rob them."

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Domoic acid outbreak killing and sickening marine mammals and birds along Southern California coast.

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However, Terry Deary, author of Horrible Histories, described them as "sickening artefacts", adding: "These are two books I'd like to burn."

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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.

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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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