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What does squeamishly mean?

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Adverb
  1. In a squeamish manner.
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The film is charming and funny, especially when the professor of literature, in high squeamishly un-erotic professorial mode, proceeds to explain that the Wife of Bath is extremely hot.
These creatures are not just squeamishly gross, but also a very real health threat.
But we're normally a bit too inhibited, squeamishly embarrassed, or cynical to make a big gushy American-style flag-waving fuss about it, except when it comes to sport.
Carl Zimmer describes in his squeamishly gripping book Parasite Rex how, eventually, the barnacle fills the entire carapace of the crab, which becomes, in effect, a zombie.
Woolf squeamishly refrains from explaining how the physical difficulties that would arise from this situation are surmounted.
And yet I almost like the girl, or should if she had been less proudly and squeamishly brought up.

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