sickeningly

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for sickeningly
Adverb
  • But in the interim, since the dragon’s demise, something has gone terribly wrong.
    Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 20 Oct. 2025
  • When Ashton reacted terribly, well, he got pushed off that cliff.
    Katie Campione, Deadline, 19 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • That stat is going to be awfully difficult to beat.
    Tyler Geis, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
  • That debate can seem awfully quaint.
    Rhian Sasseen, The Atlantic, 22 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • What has become horribly and painfully obvious post-strike is that as the challenges facing our business have risen, the press and the chatter has gotten way more negative.
    Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 23 Oct. 2025
  • George has been in solitary confinement for long stretches of time and, by all accounts, has been horribly mistreated.
    Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • Democrats appallingly gamed the system early on by inserting their activists (rather than fair-minded community members) on the map-drawing panels.
    Steven Greenhut, Oc Register, 12 Oct. 2025
  • But the rest of the movie is straight-faced, as though its story of two reckless sociopaths vying to destroy the world in their respective modes weren’t appallingly depressing.
    Alison Willmore, Vulture, 7 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • Some even cross-reference leaked Salesforce data with information from previous breaches to build disturbingly complete profiles of their victims.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The son of an alcoholic named George and a religious zealot named Augusta, Gein was raised alongside his brother Henry in a disturbingly strict household.
    Andrew McGowan, Variety, 3 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • Taking just the bare stats into consideration, Rooney's managerial career has been defined by a horrendously low win rate, but that is in addition to a spate of embarrassing off-field antics.
    Zak Garner-Purkis, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
Adverb
  • Delinquencies, defaults, and repossessions have shot up in recent years and look alarmingly similar to trends that were apparent before the Great Recession.
    Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Oct. 2025
  • After the Blue Jays had tied the series with two alarmingly comfortable wins in Seattle in Games 3 and 4, Suárez got the Mariners on the board with a solo home run to left field in the second inning.
    Jamie Barton, CNN Money, 18 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • Drawing on Riefenstahl’s own words to reveal hypocrisy and self-mythologizing, the film utilizes archival footage and photographs to make history feel alive, immediate, and unsettlingly urgent.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Which, unsettlingly, is correct.
    Peter J. Frank, Robb Report, 25 Sep. 2025
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“Sickeningly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sickeningly. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.

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