Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a sickening manner; so as to sicken or disgust.
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- adverb In a manner to
sicken .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a disgusting manner or to a disgusting degree
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Examples
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When “The Lars Affair” script came to be cast, Sue Ann Nivens was described as a sickeningly sweet Betty White type.
Here We Go Again Betty White 1995
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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.
NYT > Home Page M.D. By PAULINE W. CHEN 2010
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Space Ark is a just-announced Xbox LIVE Arcade game that I can only describe as sickeningly adorable.
Destructoid 2010
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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.
NYT > Home Page 2010
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Real life is kind of sickeningly fascinating, and I'm glad she chronicled that.
Don't Plan Anything For the Next Couple of Hours--I've Got Some Reading For You Abigail Nussbaum 2006
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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.
Mark Twain's Reputation Cardwell, Guy 1996
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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.
Our Stories 2009
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I'm reading it now myself and have had the same reaction to the earlier reviews I read: "sickeningly provincial squeamishness" is about right.
Our Stories 2009
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Musketballs smacked into timbers, splashed into flooded ground, and thunked sickeningly into human beings.
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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Musketballs smacked into timbers, splashed into flooded ground, and thunked sickeningly into human beings.
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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