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Recent Examples of queasy The controversy offers a strange, queasy fate for Snow White, one of Disney’s most foundational films. Constance Grady, Vox, 21 Mar. 2025 Patrick Cook found in Herod the strain of queasy lyricism that Siegel missed at the Met. Alex Ross, New Yorker, 19 May 2025 Then there’s carmine, which makes some consumers queasy because the reddish pigment comes from cochineal insects. Tribune News Service, Twin Cities, 19 May 2025 The year after Ocean Eleven's release, the actor directed his first film, the dark and queasy Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002). Randall Colburn, EW.com, 3 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for queasy
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Adjective
  • King Charles and Kate Middleton were both diagnosed with cancer, with the King reportedly still very sick.
    Lissete Lanuza Sáenz, StyleCaster, 20 June 2025
  • If Rob and Ryan are struck by lightning, get bored, fall out, get sick or lose a court case, will Wrexham look so transcendent?
    Matt Slater, New York Times, 22 June 2025
Adjective
  • As Republicans work to pass President Donald Trump's reconciliation bill by his July 4 deadline, many are worried about the changes that could be coming to Medicaid.
    Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 30 June 2025
  • But even in a Congress filled with newcomers, the memory of 2018 (and its electoral fallout for a beleaguered GOP) should be fresh enough to keep people worried.
    Joseph Thorndike, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
Adjective
  • Rodgers, 41, had not expressed a sense of certainty (via his agent) about his plans, which made Schneider squeamish.
    Michael Silver, New York Times, 19 June 2025
  • Even some Republicans are squeamish at the Trump administration’s aggressive tactics.
    Al Weaver, The Hill, 29 May 2025
Adjective
  • Watching his son evolve from a 4-star recruit out of Columbus High School in Miami to an eventual first-round pick out of Michigan State, Richardson doesn’t get too nervous or overly excited when Jase is on the court.
    Jason Beede, The Orlando Sentinel, 30 June 2025
  • But with Wirtz, there was suddenly an effort not to do that; the media got nervous about calling it a record.
    Zak Garner-Purkis, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
Adjective
  • That is, until one day, when Blanca began feeling unusually emotional and nauseous.
    Allison Moses, USA Today, 17 June 2025
  • The 23-year-old college student died on April 23 in Assisi, Italy, minutes after becoming nauseous while dining with friends, The Boston Globe reported in a new interview with her father published on Wednesday, May 7.
    Angel Saunders, People.com, 9 May 2025
Adjective
  • In the upcoming ninth season of Rehab Addict, which premieres on June 24, Curtis restores both that Wyoming home and a troubled Detroit property that had been invaded by squatters.
    Erin Clements, People.com, 24 June 2025
  • The long and troubled history of the would-be Venus spacecraft, known as Kosmos-482, can shed some light on these key questions, scientists say.
    Leonard David, Space.com, 23 June 2025
Adjective
  • Edan Lui of Hong Kong boy band Mirror will also make his Korean drama debut in the new season, joining the cast in a role that pairs him in an uneasy alliance with Kim Do-gi.
    Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 25 June 2025
  • Repeatedly returning to themes of globalization and alienation, the 55-year-old director has meticulously chronicled his country’s uneasy plunge into the 21st century as rampant industrialization risks deadening those left behind.
    Tim Grierson, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2025
Adjective
  • But perhaps the most persuasive testimony came from Mrs. Hall herself, who embodied the defense’s portrait of a loyal, unsuspecting wife, home alone and anxious over her husband’s mysterious disappearance.
    Jordan Runtagh, People.com, 27 June 2025
  • Other dogs, especially those that are anxious or suffer from separation anxiety, might find comfort in your scent.
    Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 June 2025

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“Queasy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/queasy. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.

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