from Follett’s Modern American Usage
“When.for example, we have two adjectives nauseous and nauseated, it should be clear that the first applies to the substance that causes the state named in the second.”
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Reality-based commentary on politics.
hesterprynne says
As in — James Comey is nauseous and we are nauseated (not mildly).
Mark L. Bail says
I always like Fowler.