sickly
Example Sentences
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But it’s not wrong that the movement is starting to look a little sickly.
From Salon
In June 2020, I adopted a sickly kitten, a responsibility I wouldn’t have been able to take on had I not been newly working from home.
From New York Times
In Platt’s highly physical interpretation, he is scrunched and sickly looking, as if literally oppressed by the gentile society around him.
From New York Times
Boston Strangler Rated R for posed corpses and sickly complexions.
From New York Times
The five defendants were arrested in August 2018 as state agents searched for a sickly 3-year-old who had been reported missing by his mother in Georgia.
From Seattle Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
