more sickening

adjective

causing or capable of causing sickness, especially nausea, disgust, or loathing: sickening arrogance.

Origin:
1715–25; sicken + -ing²

Related forms

sick·en·ing·ly, adverb

Synonyms
nauseating, disgusting, loathsome.

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sickening (ˈsɪkənɪŋ)

—*adj*
1.	causing sickness or revulsion
2.	informal extremely annoying

'sickeningly

—*adv*

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Word Origin & History

sicken

c.1200, "to become sick," originally the verb was simply sick (c.1150), from sick (adj.). Transf. sense of "to make sick" is recorded from 1694.

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"Food has it over sex for variety. Hedonistically, gustatory possibilities are much broader than copulatory ones. Literarily, reading about food is more interesting than reading about sex. The authors of The Physiology of Taste and of Histoire d'O, for example, are writers equally obsessed, but how charming is Brillat-Savarin's obsession, how sickening Reage's! Similarly, how delightful it is to hear someone describe a magnificent meal, or comical to hear a botched one described, whereas listening to the same person describe a seduction is almost invariably boring, if not repulsive. Perhaps the reason for this is that eating is the more social function, sex the more personal, and as such eating shows people in a greater multiplicity of poses, moods, and characters than does sex. Modern psychologists to the contrary, there is more going on at the table than in bed."

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