Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a nauseous manner; with aversion or loathing.
  • So as to produce nausea.

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  • adverb In a nauseous manner.

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Examples

  • What did the nauseously spunky Ray do to incur the wrath of the Malkinoids?

    Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » 50 Most Loathesome People 2009

  • Then again, some images are so nauseously sentimental they are surreal.

    This week's new exhibitions 2011

  • They chatted nauseously about what their goodbye kiss should be like.

    Tallulah Morehead: Big Brother 11: Hairy Potter & the Order of the Doofus. 2009

  • What did the nauseously spunky Ray do to incur the wrath of the Malkinoids?

    Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » 50 Most Loathesome People 2009

  • I'm not nauseously optimistic, or cautiously nauseous at this point.

    Get Ready! Here's How Your Info Will Come In 2009

  • Like the studio and Airmix, the prep room is also a D. P.H.-grade mess: half the overhead fluorescents are either out or flickering nauseously, and the gray carpet crunches underfoot, and the wastebaskets are all towering fire hazards, and many of the tabletops are piled with old books and newspapers.

    Host 2005

  • Like the studio and Airmix, the prep room is also a D. P.H.-grade mess: half the overhead fluorescents are either out or flickering nauseously, and the gray carpet crunches underfoot, and the wastebaskets are all towering fire hazards, and many of the tabletops are piled with old books and newspapers.

    Host 2005

  • And when it comes it is so dry, & nauseously sweet that I gag it up into a napkin and start scraping my tongue with a fork.

    Post ER denial & cool jobs that suck Elizabeth McClung 2006

  • And when it comes it is so dry, & nauseously sweet that I gag it up into a napkin and start scraping my tongue with a fork.

    Archive 2006-07-01 Elizabeth McClung 2006

  • Any attempt to recreate it will seem "twee" at best and "nauseously self-involved" at worst.

    12/15/01 Tonight I went to 2001

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