sickly looking

This was the case in the early 20th century when milk advertisements, which positioned the drink as a nutritionally “perfect beverage,” would contrast healthy-looking light-skinned models with sickly looking darker-skinned models.

In Platt’s highly physical interpretation, he is scrunched and sickly looking, as if literally oppressed by the gentile society around him.

He pulls up one of the more sickly looking plants and, where you should see peanuts dangling from the root, there's nothing.

Abby practically skipped toward that sickly looking pond.

Her acrylic portraits of young Eleanor Roosevelt and “poor Mary Todd Lincoln,” of “real hot goth look” Franklin Pierce and a sickly looking William Henry Harrison, reveal another aspect of her wry visual eye.