sickeningly
IPA: sˈɪknɪŋɫi
adverb
- (sometimes figurative) In a manner to sicken.
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Examples of "sickeningly" in Sentences
- Real life is kind of sickeningly fascinating, and I'm glad she chronicled that.
- Space Ark is a just-announced Xbox LIVE Arcade game that I can only describe as sickeningly adorable.
- Musketballs smacked into timbers, splashed into flooded ground, and thunked sickeningly into human beings.
- When “The Lars Affair” script came to be cast, Sue Ann Nivens was described as a sickeningly sweet Betty White type.
- I'm reading it now myself and have had the same reaction to the earlier reviews I read: "sickeningly provincial squeamishness" is about right.
- My use of the adverb "sickeningly" was meant to be ironic, something to which the teaching of school tends to make impervious even the brightest and the best.
- Even today, I can recall the sickeningly sweet odor of what had become chronic open wounds, the sounds of the bells and whistles of the small army of machines that kept her alive and the increasingly rancorous discussions between the lead surgeon and other clinicians as the months dragged on.
- I'm 500 pages into the (thus far) strongest new work I've read in ten years (Littell's The Kindly Ones) and the sickeningly provincial squeamishness, ignorance and book-burning glee on display in its shittier reviews indicate that it's more than Fiction's purposes (et al) but also its * rights* that are under attack.
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