as in sick
affected with nausea some passengers felt a little qualmish after the bumpy landing on the airstrip

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Adjective
  • Only sea stars injected with Vibrio pectenicida, or with material from sick sea stars, showed signs of disease.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The Aquarium’s Rescue and Rehabilitation team also spends several months every year caring for sick and injured green sea turtles at its Sea Turtle Hospital in Quincy, Massachusetts.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 16 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Like Lawrence, Sam Darnold isn’t squeamish about passing into tight windows or risking an INT blemish.
    Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
  • So either Sinners will be a long-time-coming breakthrough for Coogler and Jordan … or the Academy will get squeamish about something.
    Joe Reid, Vulture, 27 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The music sweeps us up in the queasy thrill of revolt, but also in the heat and momentum of an impetuous romance.
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Never’s queasy Uncut Gems accompaniment — which, like many other A24 soundtracks, received splashy vinyl releases and considerable acclaim.
    Zach Schonfeld, Vulture, 11 Sep. 2025
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“Qualmish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/qualmish. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.

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