queasily
advEtymology From queasy + -ly.
1
In a queasy manner; delicately; squeamishly.
2
In a manner that makes one queasy; sickeningly, nauseatingly.
- These women vocalists are bound in chartreuse mermaid suits and capped with blunt, white-blond wigs queasily reminiscent of Kathleen Turner's mop in Crimes of Passion.1988 April 16, Elizabeth Pincus, “Taming Upstart Women”, in Gay Community News, page 7: