The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sickening \Sick"en*ing\, a. Causing sickness; specif., causing surfeit or disgust; nauseating. -- Sick"en*ing*ly, adv.
Wiktionary
adv. (context sometimes figurative English) In a manner to sicken.
WordNet
adv. in a disgusting manner or to a disgusting degree; "the beggar was disgustingly filthy" [syn: disgustingly, distastefully, revoltingly]
Usage examples of "sickeningly".
Creatures become sickeningly plastic, moldable, as mistakable as clay.
Himself, hunched over in an autocab as the sordid guilt over what he had been doing at Jack It Up merged sickeningly with the horror of the contamination warnings sirening in his head.
Next door was the candy and stationery shop owned by two daffy old maids who were religious: here there was the almost sickeningly sweet smell of taffy, of Spanish peanuts, of jujubes and Sen-Sen and of Sweet Caporal cigarettes.
I went bravely on a couple of the rides, the kinds with little cars that bump into each other or swoop sickeningly around a central pole, and then I copped out.
The last piece falling into place, sickeningly, making Monk halt where he stood at the end of the carriage behind the engine.
I let go, hit the branch squarely with my feet, teetered sickeningly and then dropped forward, wrapping my arms about it and doing a fair imitation of a man on a greasy pole.
The fibrous skull cracked and splintered sickeningly beneath the stone and spewed him with resin and green vegetable matter like a cabbage crushed by a millstone.
It pitched sickeningly, great lungings and rockings that were amazing for a ship of such huge size.
The sickeningly sweet smells of peanut brittle and pralines assailed them, and Hugo stumbled toward the door like a man who has narrowly survived a mugging.
The material laminated between the outer walls interfered with the Sime sensory system sickeningly, and the interior bars and pockets forced the tentacles into extension and immobilized them painfully.
It had begun like other mornings, with Dorse's trite comments about oversized fire-lizards, with Lytol's habitual query about Ruth's health-as if the dragon were likely to deteriorate overnight-and with Deelan snidely repeating that sickeningly old hoot about visitors starving at the Smithcrafthall.
The ship dropped suddenly and sickeningly, plunging downward so fast that it seemed their bodies went with it but their stomaches and bowels stayed up above.
Now the Wallowing Windbag was rearing up like a rodeo bronco as it surged between the rocks and plunged sickeningly into the next trough.