[
UK
/sˈɪkənɪŋli/
]
ADVERB
-
in a disgusting manner or to a disgusting degree
the beggar was disgustingly filthy
How To Use sickeningly In A Sentence
- There's that sickeningly familiar tone again - the rasping, grating, in isolation entirely inoffensive, six-string bravado.
- The sewer system had a very low ceiling and much of the path was taken up by a stream of thick, black sludge that oozed sickeningly towards some central point.
- All aspects of the effects, dialogue, and Miles Goodman's sickeningly sweet music score are clear and distortion free.
- They spoke of five years of friendship - what John Howard would sickeningly dub "mateship", and what most female friends would simply call "love". Feel the man-love!
- She then stood next to the telephone box, her stomach beginning to tighten in a way which was becoming sickeningly familiar.
- His sickeningly sweet breath breezed across the short distance separating them to nauseate her. SILENT TRUTH
- He was always easygoing but not too lenient and he was always sweet but not sickeningly mushy.
- She felt grubby, tired and, now that the car had pulled up outside the cottage, sickeningly tense.
- Chris was the second one to notice, and the scowl dropped rather quickly, replaced by a sickeningly sweet simper that made Sam queasy.
- At these sickeningly boring events, the dubious decisions of an often shadowy jury are announced with flatulent rhetoric and overchewed jokes to the accompaniment of plastic food and dishwasher wine.