Squeamish
['skwiːmɪʃ] or ['skwimɪʃ]
Definition
(a.) Having a stomach that is easily or nauseated; hence, nice to excess in taste; fastidious; easily disgusted; apt to be offended at trifling improprieties.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Fastidious, dainty, difficult, scrupulous, over-nice, hard to please.
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Definition
adj. sickish at stomach: easily disgusted or offended: fastidious in taste.—adv. Squeam′ishly.—n. Squeam′ishness.
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Examples
- Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Some notorious carpers and squeamish moralists might be sulky with Lord Steyne, but they were glad enough to come when he asked them. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
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