sickening

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1. sickening - Noun

2. sickening - Adjective

3. sickening - Verb

5. sickening - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Sicken

Causing sickness; specif., causing surfeit or disgust; nauseating.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Fear is the enemy of logic. There is no more debilitating, crushing, self-defeating, sickening thing in the world--to an individual or to a nation. Frank Sinatra

Foolish: It's all foolish. Life is a farce- a stupid, sickening farce played out by fools. David Gemmell

In general, the man who is readily disposed to sacrifice himself is one who does not know how else to give meaning to his life. The profession of enthusiasm is the most sickening of all insincerities. Cesare Pavese

The tyrant is a child of Pride Who drinks from his sickening cup Recklessness and vanity, Until from his high crest headlong He plummets to the dust of hope. Sophocles

Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so it is the sickening grammar that they use. Mark Twain

I know that for as long as injustice remains – be it with racism, discrimination or sickening Islamophobia - you may feel there is no place for you in Britain. But I want you to know: there is a place for you and I will do everything I can to support you. David Cameron

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