Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a squeamish or fastidious manner; with too much niceness or daintiness.
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- adverb In a
squeamish manner.
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- adverb in a squeamish manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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He looks at her bloodstained mouth and chin squeamishly and then kisses her.
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If so, perhaps we ought to execute them and not restrict our involvement ( "squeamishly" as Mr. Raffel might say) to easing their path to suicide.
Kill the Killers? Arsenian, John 1979
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Now Kohokumu was a bore, and I was squeamishly out of sorts with him for his volubleness, but I could not help admiring him as watched him go down.
The Water Baby 2010
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It is also a revolution in the way birth is presented; typically, labour has been shown very squeamishly and primly, as though it's a bit like having a splinter removed.
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Now Kohokumu was a bore, and I was squeamishly out of sorts with him for his volubleness, but I could not help admiring him as watched him go down.
THE WATER BABY 2010
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Very few writers go into the bathroom with their characters, but often I find that important things transpire in the bathroom (or indeed the sewers) and see no reason to look squeamishly away.
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Presently, he was showing off for two Italian girls flirting with the eight and a half foot deep end of the pool yet retreating squeamishly to the three and a half foot side.
Miami Beach 2010
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Tiffany and I sat squeamishly on a bench in the Madigan waiting area and prepared to reengage in the retirement process.
Hope Unseen Captain Scott M. Smiley 2010
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Tiffany and I sat squeamishly on a bench in the Madigan waiting area and prepared to reengage in the retirement process.
Hope Unseen Captain Scott M. Smiley 2010
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The rude woman you encountered is evidence of that airline squeamishly undergoing their initial death throes.
Flights of Fancy: The Art of Unsimplification BikeSnobNYC 2010
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