sickly

IPA: sˈɪkɫi

verb

  • (transitive, archaic, literary) To make (something) sickly.
  • (intransitive, rare) To become sickly.

adjective

  • Frequently ill or in poor health.
  • Not in good health; (somewhat) sick.
  • Characterized by poor or unhealthy growth. (of a plant)
  • Appearing ill, infirm or unhealthy; giving the appearance of illness.
  • Shedding a relatively small amount of light; (of light) not very bright.
  • Lacking intensity or vigour.
  • Associated with poor moral or mental well-being.
  • Tending to produce nausea.
  • Overly sweet.
  • (obsolete) Marked by the occurrence of illness or disease (of a period of time).
  • (obsolete) Tending to produce disease or poor health.

adverb

  • In a sick manner; in a way that reflects or causes sickness.
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Examples of "sickly" in Sentences

  • Eran gave her a grin that could only be described as sickly.
  • I only meant to say that we are both ... since you don't like the word sickly
  • "All right, captain," Charley said to the disconsolate yachtsman, who smiled in sickly fashion at the title.
  • The fact of the health of the young and healthier person being, as it were, stolen to support that of the more aged and sickly is well established among the medical faculty.
  • The emptiness of it all is to be hidden under the esctasy – contorted faces, twisted limbs, saints, whose only true passion is the dread of their own engulfing doubt, which they try to drown in sickly exaltation.
  • Amitabh Mitra its not friday today yet summers have changed replacing with laughter striking paint flaking walls the smell of decay and the black label sickly lungs and hollow eyes scream a welcome onslaught of such seasons women dance to the fury of moon every friday in mdantsane
  • In summer, bark-stove plants require very little care, except to prevent them from receiving any sudden check, as, if the heat be not kept up regularly, the plants are very liable to stop growing, and, when the heat is renewed, to shoot a second time, and thus to waste their strength in sickly and imperfect growth.
  • The reason that “sicklist” prayers are so sickly is that they do not often truly “hunger and thirst for righteousness.” yet at the same time they are appropriate, for a longing for Shalom, a longing for peace, includes the holistic restoration of all that was lost in the fall, including physical illness and infirmaties.

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