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
Carter Glass never outgrew his frailty, his sickliness, his ferocity with fists and tongue.
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
He scorned the sickliness of the Rousseau school as, in spite of his constitutional melancholy, he scorned valetudinarianism whether of the bodily or the spiritual order.
From Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) by Stephen, Leslie, Sir
