as in sick
affected with nausea some passengers felt a little qualmish after the bumpy landing on the airstrip

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Adjective
  • Each year, about 48 million people in the U.S. get sick with foodborne illnesses, 128,000 are hospitalized, and 3,000 die, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
    Stephanie Armour, Miami Herald, 29 May 2025
  • The best defense remains up-to-date vaccination, testing when symptomatic, masking in crowded indoor spaces, and staying home when sick.
    Rachael O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 May 2025
Adjective
  • The resulting scene of torture is, for my money, way worse than most anything we're exposed to in the games—and these are games that are not exactly squeamish about showing scenes of torture and extreme violence!
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 5 May 2025
  • His Crimes of the Future, a distinctly anatomical vision of the world to (hopefully not) come, was just a little too gross for some of the more squeamish attendees of the Cannes Film Festival.
    A.A. Dowd, Vulture, 28 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • George had lived there for eight years, while Cookie, a chronically ill stray, appeared around 2020.
    Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 May 2025
  • However, some people at standard risk of COVID-19 will get seriously ill from the infection, and some will die from it.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 23 May 2025
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“Qualmish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/qualmish. Accessed 1 Jun. 2025.

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