Synonyms for squeamish
ˈskwi mɪʃsquea·mish

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1. dainty, nice, overnice, prissy, squeamishadjective

   excessively fastidious and easily disgusted

   "too nice about his food to take to camp cooking"; "so squeamish he would only touch the toilet handle with his elbow"

   Synonyms:
   mincing, straitlaced, prissy, decent, dainty, puritanical, straightlaced, priggish, overnice, skillful, straight-laced, gracious, tight-laced, nice, strait-laced, niminy-piminy, courteous, prudish, victorian, prim, exquisite, twee, square-toed

   Antonyms:
   unfastidious

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1. squeamish

   Synonyms:
   a. fastidious, dainty, difficult, scrupulous, over-nice, hard to please

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1. List of paraphrases for "squeamish":

   carsick, cozy

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How to use squeamish in a sentence?

1. Ralph Waldo Emerson:

   Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

2. Michael Weinstein:

   Unlike most politicians, voters are not squeamish about this issue, seeing it as a means to protect the health and safety of performers, it's only fair that adult film performers be afforded the same safeguards as other Californians in their workplaces.

3. Charlton Heston:

   I simply cannot stand by and watch a right guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States come under attack from those who either can't understand it, don't like the sound of it, or find themselves too philosophically squeamish to see why it remains the first among equals: Because it is the right we turn to when all else fails. That's why the Second Amendment is America's first freedom.

4. Ralph Waldo Emerson:

   Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.

5. Ralph Waldo Emerson:

   Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.