Synonyms for sickening
ˈsɪk ə nɪŋsick·en·ing

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1. nauseating, nauseous, noisome, queasy, loathsome, offensive, sickening, vileadjective

   causing or able to cause nausea

   "a nauseating smell"; "nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench"

   Synonyms:
   noisome, fetid, nauseous, revolting, nauseating, unsavory, ugly, foul, repellent, dysphemistic, slimy, unsavoury, distasteful, offensive, anxious, sick, ill-scented, foetid, vile, despicable, disgustful, stinking, disgusting, smelly, repelling, worthless, unquiet, foul-smelling, loathsome, sickish, nauseated, nervous, yucky, wicked, uneasy, skanky, funky, wretched, loathly, violative, unworthy, queasy, repellant

   Antonyms:
   wholesome

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1. sickeningadjective

   Synonyms:
   nauseating, nauseous, sickish, palling

2. sickeningadjective

   Synonyms:
   disgusting, distasteful, repulsive, revolting, foul, loathsome, offensive

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1. sickeningadjective

   Synonyms:
   nauseating, disgusting, fulsome, nauseous, revolting

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1. List of paraphrases for "sickening":

   repugnant, revolting, nauseating, repulsive

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How to use sickening in a sentence?

1. Di Guilio:

   It’s sickening. She’s an opportunist. How do you sleep when you do something like this?

2. Liz Cheney:

   As the mother of daughters, the charges certainly are sickening. As the Speaker noted there is an ethics investigation underway, there are criminal investigations underway, and I'm not going to comment further on that publicly right now.

3. Aneelah Afzali:

   I had difficulty breathing, and a sickening feeling grew in my belly -- about those killed, about what this would mean for our country and the world.

4. Bill Gelin:

   No one had spoken to them or apologized on behalf of the legal system for the despicable way Twiggs was treated until I called, this was sickening to me, so I did it for them.

5. Wednesday Blankenship:

   P.S. Mitch McConnell's cocaine tweet is just more proof that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is not Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, thousands die from cocaine use year after year, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell thinks it's funny that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell family's shipping business hauls cocaine on the high seas. It is not funny. It is sickening.