Adjective The walls were painted a sickly yellow. The lamp gave off a sickly glow.
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Adjective
The taste: Despite the visible vanilla bean flecks, the flavor was sickly and fake. Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 29 Aug. 2022 Cameron sings in a purposefully sickly sweet cadence. Liam Hess, Vogue, 23 Aug. 2022 He had been born a sickly child; his mother’s resolve and resilience were necessarily established early in his life. R.l. Ford, Variety, 16 June 2022 There was a sickly little orange one with a head that wobbled back and forth. Kathryn Scanlan, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022 The youngest, Mark, was the sickly boy who inspired his mom to bake whole-wheat bread.Fox News, 24 June 2022 But at 87 years old, barely into middle age, the tree is sickly.New York Times, 28 May 2022 But at 87 years old, barely into middle age, the tree is sickly. Tim Arango, BostonGlobe.com, 28 May 2022 Overnight, the Asian financial center was inundated with scenes of sickly older patients flooding hospital wards. David Pierson, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2022
Verb
And Jessie is stubbornly clinging to the only remedy that seems to help sickly Thomas at all: blood. Kolbie Peterson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 Jan. 2022 There is something unsavory, even sickly about the artist, something not entirely on the side of life.New York Times, 17 Sep. 2021 Klara is purchased for Josie, a sweet, sickly teenage girl who lives with her harried mother and a housekeeper outside the city. Sam Sacks, WSJ, 26 Feb. 2021 See More