Sentence examples for the nauseous from inspiring English sources

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the nauseous

adjective

Causing nausea; sickening or disgusting.

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The extravagance isn't the nauseous part; staggering displays of wealth don't look out of place in this former Carnegie mansion.

McQueen gets across the nauseous reality of the dirty protest, and for a Republican leadership for whom loss of face was unthinkable, the protest kept alive a flame of rage and compelled an inexorable narrowing of strategic options.

Anyone who has ever gone "home" to the altered landscape of their childhood and felt the nauseous lurch of spiritual dislocation will find a kindred soul in Butler and his band.

It suppresses opinion; it monopolises leisure for the countless drills and displays necessary to the generation of "spontaneous enthusiasm;" it drains off for military purposes all production above the minimum necessary to keep the people alive; it propagates the nauseous doctrine that children are born for the cannon.

The little mishap at the end when "La La Land" was briefly crowned Best Picture, before the mistake was caught and "Moonlight" received the award was a welcome touch of spontaneity in an Oscars ceremony so dishearteningly competent and mega-managed that even the calculated improvisation of bringing in tourists for an Oscars surprise party offered the nauseous wheedling of a game show.

Just look at the nauseous green of the ocean off Cape Cod, with Hughes at the oars of a boat that plunges and sways, or the pondlike green of the bath in which Sylvia lies and stews, or, for that matter, the stony green of the blackboard in front of which she teaches a supine class at Smith College.

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Known primarily in the mainstream for the rather nauseous hyper-sexualisation of women working out in the video to Call On Me, live he's nothing like that.

The Senne, which a witness in 1853 described as "the most nauseous little river in the world", had become an open-air sewer spreading pestilential odours throughout the city.

The colors were gaudy, the arrangement of figures too crowded, the visual effect like the first nauseous signs of a migraine.

Despite or even because of the extravagant absurdity of this nauseous pantomime, the reality of what went on begins to dawn on the perpetrators.

The farther we travelled, the more nauseous it became.

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