sickly

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

The subtropical southern Japanese region boasts some of the world's most biodiverse hubs of normally multicoloured coral, but a 2024 marine heatwave created "graveyards" of ghostly pale or sickly brown organisms.

From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026

The movie’s title and setting—an endless expanse of deserted, largely furniture-free office space bathed in sickly yellow—come from a crowd-sourced urban legend or “creepypasta” that spread online before the pandemic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026

Working with his regular cinematographer Oleg Mutu, Loznitsa gives this prison — and authoritarianism itself — a sickly luster without ever denying its wretched stench.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026

One afternoon, the commander’s jeep drove in with a sickly goat lying on its side, legs tied together.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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

"Master!" said Wylie, and his sallow face grew sallower and sicklier.

From The O'Donoghue Tale Of Ireland Fifty Years Ago by Charles James Lever

The grey light was beginning to steal through the port-hole, giving a sicklier hue to my companion's features, as I helped him with trembling fingers to dress.

From Laid up in Lavender by Stanley J. Weyman

His eye seemed both wilder and sicklier, and for the first time I saw him with none of the appurtenances of his trade.

From The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies by John Buchan

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

Silent rooms, low voices, lowered blinds, long days of loneliness, and of the sickliest kind of sympathy, had not tamed a spirit which was swift and headlong to a fault.

From Robert Browning by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

Ruddy and vigorous, he is not sicklied o'er with any pale cast whatever.

From Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington by Clinton W. (Clinton Wallace) Gilbert

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