sickish

Example Sentences

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His food company grew from the necessity to feed himself in a way that doesn’t make him sluggish or sickish in the water but clear and optimal.

From Washington Post • Nov. 25, 2020

Fernweh is similar to wanderlust but, like heimweh, has a sickish, melancholy tinge.

From New York Times • Sep. 23, 2015

The heaving of the breast, the rolling of the eyes, the pitching of the agony-stricken actors, in fact virtually all the fervid motions of emotion that have so long made cinema supporters sickish, are omitted.

From Time Magazine Archive

Through the great hall floated the sickish scent of massed flowers, from Peking and all the conquered capitals of Eastern Europe, from Communist Parties all over, from Stalingrad and Stalino and Stalinabad and Stalinogrosk.

From Time Magazine Archive

Some fresh-water clams from the lake, some snails which Oello really shuddered at, but some bananas which were very nice, and some ulloco, a root Oello had never seen before, and which she thought sickish.

From Christmas Eve and Christmas Day Ten Christmas stories by Hale, Edward E.