Squeamish
adjective
Easily feeling sick or disgusted, especially when seeing or talking about unpleasant things.
I'm too squeamish to watch horror movies.
Often appears as...
- feel squeamish
- too squeamish
adjective
Easily shocked by things involving sex or violence.
She was too squeamish to talk about sex.
Often appears as...
- become squeamish
- quite squeamish
adjective
Having a strong dislike for things that are not clean or neat.
He's squeamish about using public toilets.
Often appears as...
- get squeamish
- squeamish about
adjective
Easily feeling sick or disgusted, especially when seeing or talking about unpleasant things.
I'm too squeamish to watch horror movies.
Often appears as...
- feel squeamish
- too squeamish
adjective
Easily shocked by things involving sex or violence.
She was too squeamish to talk about sex.
Often appears as...
- become squeamish
- quite squeamish
adjective
Having a strong dislike for things that are not clean or neat.
He's squeamish about using public toilets.
Often appears as...
- get squeamish
- squeamish about
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Pro Tip 1/3Visual Triggers
Use 'squeamish' when something you see makes you feel like you might vomit.
I am squeamish at the sight of blood.
Pro Tip 2/3Discussion Caution
'Squeamish' can imply you don't want to talk about gory or gross topics.
Let's not discuss surgery; I'm feeling squeamish.
Pro Tip 3/3Not for Weak Stomach
Say you're squeamish if gruesome details are too much for you.
I had to leave the lecture about animal dissection because I'm squeamish.
Pro Tip 1/3Visual Triggers
Use 'squeamish' when something you see makes you feel like you might vomit.
I am squeamish at the sight of blood.
Pro Tip 2/3Discussion Caution
'Squeamish' can imply you don't want to talk about gory or gross topics.
Let's not discuss surgery; I'm feeling squeamish.
Pro Tip 3/3Not for Weak Stomach
Say you're squeamish if gruesome details are too much for you.
I had to leave the lecture about animal dissection because I'm squeamish.
Pro Tip 1/3Visual Triggers
Use 'squeamish' when something you see makes you feel like you might vomit.
I am squeamish at the sight of blood.
Pro Tip 2/3Discussion Caution
'Squeamish' can imply you don't want to talk about gory or gross topics.
Let's not discuss surgery; I'm feeling squeamish.
Pro Tip 3/3Not for Weak Stomach
Say you're squeamish if gruesome details are too much for you.
I had to leave the lecture about animal dissection because I'm squeamish.
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Video examples
Iain Hutchison: Saving...
She was just trying to achieve the face that matched her personality. But then we have other people who don't choose to have facial surgery. They're people who have their face shot off. I'll move it off, and we'll have a blank slide for those who are squeamish amongst you. They have it forced upon them.
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3 ways to be a more...
you have to understand three big things. Your feelings about wealth and money, the importance of building relationships, and how to ask for what you want. Let's start at the top, your feelings about wealth and money. What is your relationship to money? Money is complicated, it makes everyone squeamish,
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Safari Live - Day 249 PIPE...
of you probably are a little squeamish on that but the rest of it is pretty spectacular like I say to be where we are with him in the same kind of eye level is not every day and so he's chosen a spot in this rather tricky tree that's a lot of said used to have a really decent view of him which has been
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Safari Live - Day 340 PIPE...
unfortunately the stick is not gonna go anywhere i'm afraid so we're gonna just have to deal with the one stick that is in front of her face and quite a few organs that are there as well so if you're a bit squeamish now is the time to probably look away because you can see she's been chomping
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The strange politics of...
timey british scientists were the squeamish i recently got a chance to talk to richard dawkins for a documentary and I and I was able to discuss him a bunch of times here's my favorite he evolved around clip shipment sex or attached to deep-rooted emotions
Video examples
Monitor Lizard...
animal carcass as it rots down and if you're squeamish look away now so this is going to be the bad boy that we're decomposing today this is a box monitor lizard or a savannah Monitor and very sadly died of natural causes but then he
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Safari Live - Day 246 PIPE...
sort of bottom part of that carcass so not only will she be getting rid of meat but she's also licking up all that pooling blood that's sickling in that area and like I said before if you're a little squeamish it's probably not the
Video examples
The extraordinary lives...
its prey down like spaghetti crushing the world when it gets better so this talk is not for the squeamish of course what one of the things that we do at the Museum is we work out the evolutionary relationships of various organisms
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Safari Live - Day 226 PIPE...
you got in the world and it has been action parks for anybody who might have missed you can always go to youtube and watch what we were watching before and I said anybody who is a bit squeamish those about killing
Video examples
Living Among the Dead PIPE...
squeamish at least three times a day Rainey must exhume the dead with space and money scarce many poor families must rent burial sites here in what are called the apartments and like any
Video examples
Iain Hutchison: Saving...
She was just trying to achieve the face that matched her personality. But then we have other people who don't choose to have facial surgery. They're people who have their face shot off. I'll move it off, and we'll have a blank slide for those who are squeamish amongst you. They have it forced upon them.
Video examples
3 ways to be a more...
you have to understand three big things. Your feelings about wealth and money, the importance of building relationships, and how to ask for what you want. Let's start at the top, your feelings about wealth and money. What is your relationship to money? Money is complicated, it makes everyone squeamish,
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 249 PIPE...
of you probably are a little squeamish on that but the rest of it is pretty spectacular like I say to be where we are with him in the same kind of eye level is not every day and so he's chosen a spot in this rather tricky tree that's a lot of said used to have a really decent view of him which has been
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 340 PIPE...
unfortunately the stick is not gonna go anywhere i'm afraid so we're gonna just have to deal with the one stick that is in front of her face and quite a few organs that are there as well so if you're a bit squeamish now is the time to probably look away because you can see she's been chomping
Video examples
The strange politics of...
timey british scientists were the squeamish i recently got a chance to talk to richard dawkins for a documentary and I and I was able to discuss him a bunch of times here's my favorite he evolved around clip shipment sex or attached to deep-rooted emotions
Video examples
Monitor Lizard...
animal carcass as it rots down and if you're squeamish look away now so this is going to be the bad boy that we're decomposing today this is a box monitor lizard or a savannah Monitor and very sadly died of natural causes but then he
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 246 PIPE...
sort of bottom part of that carcass so not only will she be getting rid of meat but she's also licking up all that pooling blood that's sickling in that area and like I said before if you're a little squeamish it's probably not the
Video examples
The extraordinary lives...
its prey down like spaghetti crushing the world when it gets better so this talk is not for the squeamish of course what one of the things that we do at the Museum is we work out the evolutionary relationships of various organisms
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 226 PIPE...
you got in the world and it has been action parks for anybody who might have missed you can always go to youtube and watch what we were watching before and I said anybody who is a bit squeamish those about killing
Video examples
Living Among the Dead PIPE...
squeamish at least three times a day Rainey must exhume the dead with space and money scarce many poor families must rent burial sites here in what are called the apartments and like any
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Quote examples
Amanda Burton
Irish Actress
I'm becoming more squeamish. I didn't use to be - nine years of 'Silent Witness' prepared me for most things one will have the misfortune to see in life. Before, I'd be wading up to my neck in gore, but now I tend to look away.
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Octavia Spencer
American Actress
I think if I weren't so squeamish, I would have been some sort of forensic analyst. And I can't do anything with a microscope, because then I start thinking about the world of germs around us.
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Anna Getty
German Actress
Don't be afraid to get your hands in the dirt. Buy gloves if you are squeamish about it.
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Victoria Coren Mitchell
English Writer
I'm too short-sighted, too squeamish for contact lenses and too vain for glasses.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
American Philosopher
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
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Phoebe Robinson
American Comedian
I'm easily frightened and am somewhat of a squeamish person.
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Maurice Saatchi
Iraqi Businessman
Politics is not a world for the squeamish or fainthearted.
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Liz Truss
British Politician
Women need to be less squeamish about making money.
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Nick Gehlfuss
American Actor
I'm finding out that I'm not squeamish whatsoever.
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Aminatta Forna
British Writer
I'm a doctor's daughter. I'm not squeamish at all.
Quote examples
Amanda Burton
Irish Actress
I'm becoming more squeamish. I didn't use to be - nine years of 'Silent Witness' prepared me for most things one will have the misfortune to see in life. Before, I'd be wading up to my neck in gore, but now I tend to look away.
Quote examples
Octavia Spencer
American Actress
I think if I weren't so squeamish, I would have been some sort of forensic analyst. And I can't do anything with a microscope, because then I start thinking about the world of germs around us.
Quote examples
Anna Getty
German Actress
Don't be afraid to get your hands in the dirt. Buy gloves if you are squeamish about it.
Quote examples
Victoria Coren Mitchell
English Writer
I'm too short-sighted, too squeamish for contact lenses and too vain for glasses.
Quote examples
Ralph Waldo Emerson
American Philosopher
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
Quote examples
Phoebe Robinson
American Comedian
I'm easily frightened and am somewhat of a squeamish person.
Quote examples
Maurice Saatchi
Iraqi Businessman
Politics is not a world for the squeamish or fainthearted.
Quote examples
Liz Truss
British Politician
Women need to be less squeamish about making money.
Quote examples
Nick Gehlfuss
American Actor
I'm finding out that I'm not squeamish whatsoever.
Quote examples
Aminatta Forna
British Writer
I'm a doctor's daughter. I'm not squeamish at all.
Example 1 of 10
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