sickly

He is still haunted by cases where sellers could not be located, or the team arrived too late, finding the creatures either dead or so sickly they died soon after rescue.

From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026

The railroads advertised the L.A. climate as a last resort for the world’s sickly.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

There is something genuinely quite heartbreaking about watching Panettiere, a young woman just coming to understand Hollywood industry standards, repeat the sickly refrains of a similarly demanding profession.

From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2026

“Horsegirls” might read on paper as too sickly sweet, but Meyering’s thoughtful direction and star Lillian Carrier’s performance keep it from tipping too far in that direction.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2026

She brushes her pale, sickly hands over my forehead.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

He’s big, menacing and worthy to own, but I would have preferred his older, sicklier version in which he acted as a caretaker for Professor X in the film “Logan.”

From Washington Times ● May 29, 2019

The Greek lamp of Monarchism, which has been burning with an ever sicklier flame, went out.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Count's face had turned sicklier and uglier as his friend had continued to speak.

From The Bright Face of Danger Being an Account of Some Adventures of Henri de Launay, Son of the Sieur de la Tournoire by Robert Neilson Stephens

The perfume of flowers—the faint sweetness of mimosa and the sicklier fragrance of hyacinths—seemed almost overwhelming, for the fire was warm and the windows closed.

From The Illustrious Prince by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

The Jesuit, whiter and sicklier than before, murmured that he would go and rest after his journey, and with eyes steadily cast down he walked away.

From Helbeck of Bannisdale — Volume II by Mrs. Humphry Ward

It’s a family joke that they have the sickliest pets in history.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 15, 2021

A bunged-up court system made foreclosure all but impossible, so owners of even the sickliest of companies could spend lavishly without fear of repercussions.

From Economist ● Apr. 19, 2018

This is also a bank that marketed complex derivatives to Europe’s sickliest bank, Monte dei Paschi in Italy.

From New York Times ● Dec. 30, 2016

Healthiest section of the U. S. from the typhoid aspect is New England; sickliest, the east south-central region.

From Time Magazine Archive

When that happened, he plunged into the most reckless melodrama, revelled in the sickliest sentiment, or evolved the most grotesque characters, the most fantastic plots.

From Landmarks in French Literature by Giles Lytton Strachey

The town -- the greater Bay Area, for that matter -- is sicklied o'er with restaurants.

From Time Magazine Archive

Oh, nothing, I'm just a little sicklied o'er ...

From Time Magazine Archive

In the middle of a second act seance various ectoplasmic entities wander about the darkness sicklied o'er with the pale cast of greenish spotlights.

From Time Magazine Archive

They are Reds who have been, if not sicklied o'er, at least noticeably bleached, if not by the pale cast of thought, then by the bright sun of circumstance.

From Time Magazine Archive

It has nearly distracted some men, whose minds were sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought.

From How to be Happy Though Married Being a Handbook to Marriage by Edward John Hardy

They believe that on public occasions the chuprassies have sometimes the power of sicklying them o'er with the pale cast of neglect.

From Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series by George Robert Aberigh-Mackay

He imagined the first beginnings of suspicion; he saw it filming the eyes of his acquaintances, then of his friends, and at last sicklying over the face even of his brother Silas.

From Two Days' Solitary Imprisonment 1898 by Edward Bellamy

No sicklying taint of sorrow overlies the lucid lake of liquid love, upon which, hand in hand, Aline and I are to float into eternity!

From The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan by Sir W. S. (William Schwenck) Gilbert

Growing quite staid in manner, the weight of India adding gravity to his looks, sicklying his young face o'er with pale cast of thought.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, May 7, 1892 by Various

And therefore West, after an hour of delightful tête-à-tête in the charming little back parlor, stiffened himself up, his brow sicklying o'er with the pale cast of disagreeable thought, and began to make it.

From Queed by Raymond Moreau Crosby