单词 | sick-making |
释义 | > as lemmassick-making sick-making adj. and n. ΚΠ 1930 E. Waugh Vile Bodies i. 7 Sometimes the ship pitched and sometimes she rolled... ‘Too, too sick~making,’ said Miss Runcible, with one of her rare flashes of accuracy. 1938 D. Thomas Let. c6 July in Sel. Lett. (1966) 203 There will be speechmaking, drunkmaking, sickmaking and we must all dress up. 1949 N. Mitford Love in Cold Climate i. vi. 59 I'm in a terrible do about my [stolen] bracelet of lucky charms—no value to anybody else—really—too too sick-making. 1976 I. Illich Limits to Med. 7 What has turned health care into a sick-making enterprise is the very intensity of an engineering endeavour. 1978 Times 5 Oct. 2/4 What is sickmaking is the IBA..trying to make the BBC out as the monster and them the viewers' guardian. < as lemmas |
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