What is "nauseous"

Usage examples of "nauseous".

But he is the man I send afield for my raw material, and he has always been able to find for me the mud of the slimiest consistency and most nauseous stench.

Its leaves and tops have a strong aromatic odour, and a penetrating warms bitterish taste which is rather nauseous.

Ricky followed him as he walked past the cattle pen and the cesspit, still brimming with its nauseous contents, swollen by the rains, to the barns where his father might have buried the family treasures to save them from marauders.

She took a croissant from the plate Fibber placed in the middle of the table and gently teased apart the layers of flaky pastry, yet the thought of eating it made her inexplicably nauseous.

A foil for his virtues is provided by the character of Byron, whose nauseous affectations, animal coarseness, niggardliness, except where his own personal comfort was involved, and deep-seated snobbishness, makes Shelley into an angel of light.

It was something to have unlearned the pernicious habit of constantly giving poisons to a patient, as if they were good in themselves, of drawing off the blood which he would want in his struggle with disease, of making him sore and wretched with needless blisters, of turning his stomach with unnecessary nauseous draught and mixtures, --only because he was sick and something must be done.

When Webb challenged her to haul the gunnysack of entrails out of the shed and some distance away, she managed to swallow the nauseous lump in her throat and drag them out.

I feel nauseous, and only a whiff of ginger and allspice keeps me on my feet.

Such terrors would disgrace a cook-maid, or a toothless aunt--when they fall from the lips of bearded and senatorial men, they are nauseous, antiperistaltic, and emetical.

The smell made her dizzy and nauseous and she grasped at the smooth-polished stone of the balustrade for support.

The Baroness showed no surprise, but wondered whether the Princess might not have to lunch, and dine too, on some nauseous little mess brought to her on a battered brass tray.

Added to which a peculiar orbital motion, designed to keep the artefact at its south pole presented to a location deep inside the central area of the Kefahuchi Tract, gave it nauseous, undependable rhythms.

Did he not lie in bed, the gross boar, gloating over a nauseous fragment of wellused toilet paper presented to him by a nasty harlot, stimulated by gingerbread and a postal order?

My stomach was clenching so desperately with hunger pangs that I felt nauseous.

Fox large-head sticks a nauseous West-Coast fluorescent orange with the trademark fox-glyph painted on the strings.