sickliness

Example Sentences

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Afraid of giving an impression of sickliness, Trump reportedly resisted advisers who told him he should be helicoptered to Walter Reed on Friday, before eventually giving in.

From Slate • Oct. 6, 2020

This sickliness broods over many a deviant lag and three-putt green.

From Golf Digest • May 7, 2020

So they may be excused for choking on the sudden sickliness of so-called state tobacco bonds.

From Time Magazine Archive

Present-day letters, which some doctors have diagnosed as convalescing from a long siege of bilious morbidity, is breaking out in occasional patches that seem reminiscent of the same sort of adolescent sickliness.

From Time Magazine Archive

The most unwholesome plan is to send boys to one school, girls to another; both physically and morally, this method gives good hope of sickliness.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. by