sickly
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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
Smog compromised the health of kids and the sickly and the elderly.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026
Modi, as the Italian was affectionately called, was urbane, well-groomed and handsome, while Soutine was destitute, sickly and notoriously unwashed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025
Smith was a sickly child, contracting bronchial pneumonia, tuberculosis, German measles, mumps and chicken pox which kept her in "periods of lengthy bed rest".
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2025
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 Stephens, Robert Neilson
The sickly gaslight throws a sicklier glare over the narrow, unpaved streets.
From Justice in the By-Ways, a Tale of Life by Adams, F. Colburn (Francis Colburn)
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 Buchan, John
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
He was wilting before the stem eye, and he was smiling in the sickliest, most ghastly fashion.
From In And Out by Franklin, Edgar, [pseud.]
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
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
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
His soldiership became sicklied o'er when he went beyond the parade ground.
From The Struggle for Missouri by McElroy, John
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 Bellamy, Edward
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 Gilbert, W. S. (William Schwenck), Sir
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 Crosby, Raymond Moreau
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
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 Aberigh-Mackay, George Robert
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