Sickly /(?)/
Sick·ly
Sickly
a.
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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.
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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.
Sickly
adv.
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In a sick manner or condition; ill.
My people sickly [with ill will] beareth our marriage.
Sickly
v. t.
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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.