85 examples of squeamish in sentences

Well, I have provided her one that I like, but if she be so squeamish, let her fast, with a Murrain to her. Isa.

Donnegan was not a squeamish sort, but the fat, smiling face of Macon filled him with unutterable aversion.

Nice, fastidious, dainty, finical, squeamish.

Philanthropy shouldn't be squeamish.

Two or three of the men, however, were courteous enough to attend to their unwilling guests and see they were served as well as conditions would permit The food was plentiful and of good quality, but although none of Uncle John's party was squeamish or a stickler for form, all more or less revolted from the utter disregard of all the proprieties.

We live in squeamish days.

Amid the beauties of your manuscript, of which no man can think more highly than I do, what will the squeamish say to such expressions as these,'devoured their limbs, yet warm and trembling, lapping the blood,' page 10.

It may be, That some there are, squeamish half-thinking cowards, Who will turn pale upon you, call you murderer,

He became less squeamish later.

However, he felt a trifle squeamish at the thought of the tenant of the premises returning and finding him there.

A. was not so squeamish in the language he employed

It don't pay to be squeamish.

You will also, my lord, find them much more easy and tractable, than the squeamish, fretful, discontented wretches, with which other ministers have had to do.

Their chief talent lies in the art of courtship, and they are by no means nice and squeamish in their stomach for a mistress.

Adj. unwilling; not in the vein, loth, loath, shy of, disinclined, indisposed, averse, reluctant, not content; adverse &c (opposed) 708; laggard, backward, remiss, slack, slow to; indifferent &c 866; scrupulous; squeamish &c (fastidious) 868; repugnant &c (dislike) 867; restiff^, restive; demurring &c v.; unconsenting &c (refusing) 764; involuntary &c 601.

Adj. diseased; ailing &c v.; ill, ill of; taken ill, seized with; indisposed, unwell, sick, squeamish, poorly, seedy; affected with illness, afflicted with illness; laid up, confined, bedridden, invalided, in hospital, on the sick list; out of health, out of sorts; under the weather

The collection of these revenues could be made a very paying concern seeing that it was not necessary to be too squeamish about the rights and claims of the provincials.

No, sir; very few yet have the moral courage to record their names to such an avowal; and even some of these petitioners are so squeamish on this subject, as to say that they might, from conscientious principles, be prevented from holding slaves.

"Prov. 29, 7. "True humanity consists not in a squeamish ear, but in listening to the story of human suffering and endeavoring to relieve it.

I feel a trifle squeamish.

" "Before such danger as confronted us, Manuel, it does not pay to be squeamish," replied Niafer, "and my exorcism was good Dirgham.

* One has heard so often of works of "absorbing interest" that appeared at "the psychological moment" that one feels a bit squeamish about applying these phrases even to such a book as Mr. HARRY DE WINDT'S Russia as I Know It (CHAPMAN AND HALL); but honestly their appropriateness cannot be denied in view of the author's peculiar knowledge of the too mysterious country on which interest just now is so poignantly concentrated.

Years hence, when robust Saxon sense has flung away Jewish superstition and Eastern prejudice, and put under its foot fastidious scholarship and squeamish fashion, some second Tacitus from the valley of the Mississippi will answer to him of the Seven Hills: 'In all grave questions, we consult our women.'

Tuesday, Nine, Rose squeamish.

Stay here if you are so squeamish?"

85 examples of  squeamish  in sentences