squeamish
IPA: skwˈimɪʃ
adjective
- Easily shocked, sickened or frightened; tending to be nauseated or nervous; oversensitive.
- Averse or reluctant.
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Examples of "squeamish" in Sentences
- People do tend to be squeamish.
- He was a very goosey and squeamish person.
- It's certainly not for the squeamish, is it
- His lectures were not for the squeamish ones.
- I found I wasn't squeamish and I watched operations.
- Hanzha was reportedly the most squeamish of the three.
- I'm squeamish, and there was only point I had to look away.
- On one hand, an attempt by the squeamish to objectify their biases.
- Is it accurate to tell squeamish people that myoglobin is not blood
- It might perhaps be considered among the least squeamish of creatures.
- Yet rejection of DIY killing and eating pet animals is increasingly cast as "squeamish" - shirking a necessary evil like cleaning up vomit instead of shirking voluntary and unnecessary violence.
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