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adjective

Sickly adj. (compar. sicklier; superl. sickliest)

Somewhat sick; disposed to illness; attended with disease; as, a sickly body. "This physic but prolongs thy sickly days."

Producing, or tending to, disease; as, a sickly autumn; a sickly climate.

Appearing as if sick; weak; languid; pale. "The moon grows sickly at the sight of day." "Nor torrid summer's sickly smile."

Tending to produce nausea; sickening; as, a sickly smell; sickly sentimentality.

Synonyms: Diseased; ailing; infirm; weakly; unhealthy; healthless; weak; feeble; languid; faint.

verb

Sickly v. t. To make sick or sickly; with over, and probably only in the past participle. (R.) "Sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought." "Sentiments sicklied over... with that cloying heaviness into which unvaried sweetness is too apt to subside."

adverb

Sickly adv. In a sick manner or condition; ill. "My people sickly (with ill will) beareth our marriage."

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Etymology of 'Sickly'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Sickly" Quotes from Famous Books

... group of male and female mourners at its foot—a group of colours that less imitate than rival nature, and tinged by grief itself; a scale of tones for which even Titian offers me no parallel—yet all equally overcast by the lurid tone that stains the whole, and like a meteor hangs in the sickly air. Whatever inequality or dereliction of feeling, whatever improprieties of commonplace, of local and antique costume, the master's rapidity admitted to fill his space, and they are great, all vanish in the power which compresses them into a ...

— Rembrandt and His Works • John Burnet

... a summer night, but chilly, the sky somewhat gloomy and overcast. Still there was a moon—faint and sickly, but still a moon—and if the clouds permitted, after midnight it ...

— The Best Ghost Stories • Various

... ameliorate them, that few tenders reached their destination without a more or less serious outbreak of fever, small-pox or some other equally malignant distemper. Upon the fleet the effect was appalling. Sickly tenders could not but make ...

— The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore • John R. Hutchinson

... of the letter. "Oh, confound this infernal fellow!" he shouted, in sickly wonderment; and snapped sharp, "drag you into the mess? Upon my honour, your coolness, Ned, is the biggest part about you, ...

— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... like one shocked into deadly silence. Not even her lips parted, and the color left her face sickly white. ...

— Jane Allen: Junior • Edith Bancroft

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