sickening

  • 81disgusting — adjective 1) the food was disgusting Syn: revolting, repellent, repulsive, sickening, nauseating, stomach churning, stomach turning, off putting, unpalatable, distasteful, foul, nasty, vomitous; informal yucky, icky, gross …

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  • 82bad — adj 1. virtueless, unrighteous, godless, impious, ungodly; immoral, amoral, nonmoral, unmoral, unprincipled, reprobate; corrupt, depraved, perverted, profligate, dissolute, libertine, abandoned, licentious; unscrupulous, dishonest, crooked,… …

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  • 83sicken — UK [ˈsɪkən] / US verb Word forms sicken : present tense I/you/we/they sicken he/she/it sickens present participle sickening past tense sickened past participle sickened 1) [transitive] if something sickens you, it shocks you and makes you feel… …

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  • 84disgust — [dis gust′] n. [MFr desgoust, distaste < des (see DIS ) + L gustus, a taste, relish: see GUSTO] a sickening distaste or dislike; deep aversion; repugnance vt. [MFr desgouster < des (see DIS ) + L gustare, to taste] to cause to feel disgust; …

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  • 85mawkish — [mô′kish] adj. [lit., maggoty < ME mawke, maggot < ON mathkr < IE base * math , gnawing vermin > MOTH] 1. having a sweet, weak, sickening taste; insipid or nauseating 2. sentimental in a weak, insipid way, so as to be sickening… …

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  • 86sicken — v. 1 tr. affect with loathing or disgust. 2 intr. a (often foll. by for) show symptoms of illness (is sickening for measles). b (often foll. by at, or to + infin.) feel nausea or disgust (he sickened at the sight). 3 (as sickening adj.) a… …

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  • 87sick´en|ing|ly — sick|en|ing «SIHK uh nihng, SIHK nihng», adjective. 1. making sick; causing nausea, faintness, disgust, or loathing: »a sickening sight;…with monstrous head and sickening cry [the donkey] (G. K. Chesterton). SYNONYM(S): repulsive, offensive. 2.… …

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  • 88sick|en|ing — «SIHK uh nihng, SIHK nihng», adjective. 1. making sick; causing nausea, faintness, disgust, or loathing: »a sickening sight;…with monstrous head and sickening cry [the donkey] (G. K. Chesterton). SYNONYM(S): repulsive, offensive. 2. becoming… …

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  • 89After one's own heart — Heart Heart (h[aum]rt), n. [OE. harte, herte, heorte, AS. heorte; akin to OS. herta, OFies. hirte, D. hart, OHG. herza, G. herz, Icel. hjarta, Sw. hjerta, Goth. ha[ i]rt[=o], Lith. szirdis, Russ. serdtse, Ir. cridhe, L. cor, Gr. kardi a, kh^r.… …

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  • 90At heart — Heart Heart (h[aum]rt), n. [OE. harte, herte, heorte, AS. heorte; akin to OS. herta, OFies. hirte, D. hart, OHG. herza, G. herz, Icel. hjarta, Sw. hjerta, Goth. ha[ i]rt[=o], Lith. szirdis, Russ. serdtse, Ir. cridhe, L. cor, Gr. kardi a, kh^r.… …

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