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  • adverb In a churning manner.

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churning +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Stomach-churningly sinister: ...by invitation only and limited to...among others:

    In praise of … The Magic Mountain | Editorial 2011

  • It's dirty but not "dirty", and while it's a little on the gross side, it's not stomach-churningly so.

    July 21st, 2009 alessar 2009

  • Unfortunately, the forces of the universe by way of a stomach-churningly dodgy takeaway salad conspired against me - I had to leg it after 40 minutes in favour of convalescence.

    Fitzcarraldo on the Big Screen Glenn Dunks 2010

  • This is by Paul Czege, the guy who did My Life With Master, and it is both stomach-churningly creepy and awe-inspiringly brilliant.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Greg Tannahill 2009

  • This is by Paul Czege, the guy who did My Life With Master, and it is both stomach-churningly creepy and awe-inspiringly brilliant.

    The Valedictorian's Death Greg Tannahill 2009

  • The Wire: Season 4 ***** is as superbly-written, brilliantly funny, expertly-acted and stomach-churningly tragic as ever, except possibly even moreso than the first three seasons.

    Archive 2008-12-01 Adam Whitehead 2008

  • But ironically, though I can take the achingly-slow pace of 1970s science fiction movies ad infinitum, the achingly-slow (and churningly predictable, these days) plot of Shaft was enough to force me to put it away after forty-five minutes.

    The Mini-Movie Reviews: March 2006

  • The Wire: Season 4 ***** is as superbly-written, brilliantly funny, expertly-acted and stomach-churningly tragic as ever, except possibly even moreso than the first three seasons.

    The Wire: Season 4 Adam Whitehead 2008

  • Forbes maintains that there is no alternative to a stomach-churningly large public debt.

    The Forbes prescription 2008

  • It's entirely credible that this gut-churningly funny satire of the reddest of the red, boosted a couple million voters into the wild blue yonder.

    Tony Hendra: Pundits' Cultural Learnings Forget! I Say "Borat" Won Congress Last Tuesday! 2008

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