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Sickeningly

adverb
1.
In a disgusting manner or to a disgusting degree.  Synonyms: disgustingly, distastefully, revoltingly.






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"Sickeningly" Quotes from Famous Books



... any hut in the row except the big cabin of "old Brownie," the "greasy cook," who called us to "bean—oh!" with so resonant a shout, and majestically served out our rations of pork, "salt horse," coffee long-boiled and sickeningly sweet, hardtack, and the daily loaf ...
— Old Man Savarin and Other Stories • Edward William Thomson

... unmelting ice had been placed upon his chest, sending a slight, dry shiver through his whole body. At such times, Tsiganok, always dark in complexion, would turn black, assuming the shade of bluish cast-iron. And he acquired a curious habit; as though he had eaten too much of something sickeningly sweet, he kept licking his lips, smacking them, and would spit on the floor, hissingly, through his teeth. When he spoke, he did not finish his words, so rapidly did his thoughts run that his tongue ...
— The Seven who were Hanged • Leonid Andreyev

... so sickeningly hard! Why do it? Why, when everything seems all right, pry into the deep and hidden roots of things? I don't want to think about the possibility of some dreadful dry-rot happening to married people's feelings towards each other, as they get older and get used to each other. It's soiling ...
— The Brimming Cup • Dorothy Canfield Fisher



Words linked to "Sickeningly" :   sickening, disgustingly, distastefully, revoltingly



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