sickish
Example Sentences
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“On some of the streets the stench — sweet and sickish from dead bodies — is overwhelming,” he wrote.
From Seattle Times
I do not care for the Petunia close at hand on account of its sickish odor.
From Project Gutenberg
I did not turn to my habitation across the square, to sniff the lifeless atmosphere and the sickish paint of the opera house; I bent my way to the river where the moon was free.
From Project Gutenberg
The tree throughout exhales a sickish, disagreeable odor.
From Project Gutenberg
I've seen rougher things in the States, but that crying noise he made gave me a sickish feeling.
From Project Gutenberg
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
