Meaning

(slang, transitive, often with out) To disgust or disturb..

Definitions by Sense

1. (slang, transitive, often with out) To disgust or disturb.
2. (slang, transitive) To be disgusted or disturbed by.
3. (slang, intransitive) To be or become disgusted.
4. (slang) A disgusting or loathed person.

Example Sentences

His mother is repulsed by his uncle; he has heard her whisper it in the kitchen, "I skeeves him, Charley." She is Italian.

“Beecher,” Clementine whispers, “if this is skeeving you out, let's just skip the room and—” ¶ “I'm fine. No skeeving at all,” I tell her, knowing full well that Iris would've had me leave ten minutes ago.

I asked her, one time, if it didn't maybe skeeve her to work for a crud like Duke.

"Those are not me — preppy jackets skeeve me! I hate those shoes."

At twenty-three, Eric wasn't that much older than my nineteen, but that didn't mean his pseudo-comeons didn't skeeve me out. There was something almost menacing about him.

You could put that needle in your arm? Man, I skeeve that like death.

Carmela: Sometimes I think you skeeve me. / Tony: I skeeve you? You’re the mother of my children. How could I?

I remember Phil telling O'Maurigan after the Schuyler reading he's afraid I won't ever write a book— not because I'm lazy, or don't have the self-esteem, but because I skeeve on stealing.

Word Forms

• skeeves
• skeeving
• skeeved
• skeev

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Use skeeve when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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