nauseating
adjective
nau·se·at·ing
ˈnȯ-zhē-ˌā-tiŋ 
-shē-,
-zē-,
-sē-
: causing nausea or especially disgust
The details … are nauseating to read …—
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nauseatingly
adverb
Examples of nauseating in a Sentence
the nauseating smell of rotting garbage
The way the animals were treated was nauseating.
It was nauseating to see the two of them act like lovesick teenagers.
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Hours into shooting this scene, the constantly flickering lights become somewhat nauseating.
—Eliana Dockterman, Time, 20 Oct. 2025
This includes a front seating space capable of switching between a typical forward-facing position or a more sociable, but also potentially more nauseating, rearward-facing position that allows front and rear passengers to face one another.
—Greg Fink, Car and Driver, 19 Aug. 2022
The grisly encounter that sets the plot in motion is mercifully less nauseating than the novel; one major character is added; and one villain, securely incarcerated in the book, instead remains at large.
—Washington Post, 5 Mar. 2022
And sometimes, the cooking process looks pretty nauseating, but the finished product turns out to look so normal that commenters suspect the video was cut and edited.
—Lydia Wang, refinery29.com, 2 June 2021
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Eliana Dockterman, Time, 20 Oct. 2025
This includes a front seating space capable of switching between a typical forward-facing position or a more sociable, but also potentially more nauseating, rearward-facing position that allows front and rear passengers to face one another.
—Greg Fink, Car and Driver, 19 Aug. 2022
The grisly encounter that sets the plot in motion is mercifully less nauseating than the novel; one major character is added; and one villain, securely incarcerated in the book, instead remains at large.
—Washington Post, 5 Mar. 2022
And sometimes, the cooking process looks pretty nauseating, but the finished product turns out to look so normal that commenters suspect the video was cut and edited.
—Lydia Wang, refinery29.com, 2 June 2021
See All Example Sentences for nauseating
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“Nauseating.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nauseating. Accessed 10 Nov. 2025.
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