sickly
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There’s not a single shot of a healthy human being in the movie, only wraiths filmed in sickly shades of pink, red and blue.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
In Mr. Harris’s telling, long before Augustus came to rule vast swaths of the earth, he was a sickly boy named Octavius, bullied by schoolmates until the far-stronger Agrippa became his protector.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
“I can’t even enjoy the video without thinking she looks sickly every second she is on the screen,” one person posted on YouTube.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 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
In spite of Mama’s good care I was a sickly child and always small for my age.
From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney
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 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
The sickly gas-light throws a sicklier glare over the narrow, unpaved streets.
From An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith by F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams
I have no means of judging if it be poorer or sicklier or; more wretched than usual.
From The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II) by Charles James Lever
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
Like the mother, who lavishes her tenderest endearments on her sickliest child, did he now endeavour to support his brother in his afflictions.
From A Love Story by A Bushman
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
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
The old, depressed look was gone, his face was no longer "sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought;" he seemed in cheerful, almost buoyant spirits.
From Vineta The Phantom City by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner
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
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
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
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