Causing nausea; sickening or disgusting.
The word "nauseous" is correct and usable in written English. It can be used to describe something that makes you feel sick to your stomach or have an unpleasant taste in your mouth. For example, "The nauseous smell of the trash filled the hot summer air.".
My mum brought these to the hospital on my first day of treatment, and the memory still makes me nauseous.
No wonder, then, that Winterbottom and Brand's documentary-cum- state-of-the-nation address The Emperor's New Clothes feels so sincere – it's a howl of rage at a political and economic system that the two evidently find nauseous.
She had felt dizzy and nauseous, she said, and really a bit crap.
Rather, I feel nauseous from the diesel exhaust puttering out hiccups of black smoke, as the Bhavna Putra's chipped orange and white hull soars and dips like a cistern ball-cock, on the alum-coloured waves.
This is Simon's take on the Invisible Children campaign: I felt a little nauseous watching the film.
But it is something that, if you did it every week, would leave you feeling nauseous and infantilised.
Jane looks nauseous.
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