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queazy

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quea·sy also quea·zy   (kwē'zē)   
adj.   quea·si·er also quea·zi·er, quea·si·est also quea·zi·est
  1. Experiencing nausea; nauseated.

  2. Easily nauseated.

  3. Causing nausea; sickening: the queasy lurch of an airplane during a storm.

    1. Causing uneasiness.

    2. Uneasy; troubled.

    3. Easily troubled.

    4. Ill at ease; squeamish: "He is not queasy about depicting mass violence, in some circumstances, as a legitimate instrument of social transformation" (Shaul Bakhash).

    1. Easily troubled.

    2. Ill at ease; squeamish: "He is not queasy about depicting mass violence, in some circumstances, as a legitimate instrument of social transformation" (Shaul Bakhash).


[Middle English coisy, perhaps of Scandinavian origin.]
quea'si·ly adv., quea'si·ness n.
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