How To Use Squeamishness In A Sentence
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We are overapt to apply our nineteenth century prejudices and prepossessions to the morality of the ancient Greeks who would have specimen'd such squeamishness in Attic salt.
Arabian nights. English
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That was the first squeamishness the Pathan had shown of any kind, but men of his race would rather be tortured to death than hanged in a merciful hempen noose.
In The Time Of Light
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Even the odor of my Calcutta washerman, redolent with the fragrance of castor oil, was too much for my unchastised squeamishness; and as to assafoetida, the favorite condiment of our Aryan cousins, I was so uncatholic as to bring away from India the same aversion to it that I had carried out there.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875
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They have no squeamishness whatever about his watching their own natatorial duties; why, then, should he shrink within himself and wave them off?
Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama
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We are overapt to apply our nineteenth century prejudices and prepossessions to the morality of the ancient Greeks who would have specimen’d such squeamishness in Attic salt.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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he refused to allow squeamishness to deter him from his duty
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Faecal matter and toilet paper are never shown, perhaps reflecting American squeamishness, though evidence of anal intercourse and vaginal bruising is spoken of like tennis scores.
Archive 2005-07-01
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It seems oversubtle to charge me with "squeamishness" when I have admitted to finding Miss Blais's horror stories "ludicrous.
Exorcising Demons
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And you complained about our “sissiness” while simultaneously admitting that you let your squeamishness set your politics.
Homophobic men and Misogyny–do they go hand in hand?
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My young companions, who, as I have observed, had only preceded me six months in the service, were already grown old in depravity; they laughed at my squeamishness, called me "milksop" and "boarding-school miss," and soon made me as bad as themselves.
Frank Mildmay Or, The Naval Officer
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And squeamishness prevented me looking for a tiny insect to place on a sticky dewdrop leaf.
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Peter understands the church's squeamishness about eating unclean foods and staying in a nonkosher home; Peter had gulped a little himself.
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We could debate endlessly the role of such squeamishness in concealing and exacerbating the problem with race relations in both Pittsburgh and Pennsylvania.
Storming the media bastille « BuzzMachine
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And squeamishness prevented me looking for a tiny insect to place on a sticky dewdrop leaf.
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There is an understandable squeamishness among law-makers about what we used to call "mountaineering", climbing anything that rose out of the ground.
Six Nations 2011: England still need to get rid of their stutter | Eddie Butler
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The word foodie itself, turns out, was borne from the very squeamishness the word can incite today.
Thestar.com - Home Page
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My young companions, who, as I have observed, had only preceded me six months in the service, were already grown old in depravity; they laughed at my squeamishness, called me, "milksop" and
Frank Mildmay The Naval Officer
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the program was withdrawn because of the squeamishness of some viewers
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This, and the white emigree from Africa to America point to the absurdity of both the term African-American and the squeamishness of people who, for some reason, cannot say, “black.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » OK, Parse This for an Israeli or Armenian Lawyer Who Works at Your Firm:
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That there's a profile of Mr. Jorden in Opera News says a lot about the magazine — current editor Paul Driscoll doesn't suffer from what Mr. Kellow calls "squeamishness" about some controversy — as well as the hipper, more technophilic and media-friendly environment of the Met under its current general manager, Peter Gelb.
The Bewitching Art of 'La Cieca'
