sickly

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

The “Brat” pop star re-teams with her “360” and “Guess” music video director for a satire about struggling to ditch her sickly green branding.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2026

The movie’s title and setting—an endless expanse of deserted, largely furniture-free office space bathed in sickly yellow—come from a crowd-sourced urban legend or “creepypasta” that spread online before the pandemic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026

Smith was a sickly child, contracting bronchial pneumonia, tuberculosis, German measles, mumps and chicken pox which kept her in "periods of lengthy bed rest".

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2025

The slime congealed on his cheeks and forehead, glistening sickly in the low light.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda

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

His eye seemed both wilder and sicklier, and for the first time I saw him with none of the appurtenances of his trade.

From The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies by Buchan, John

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 Weyman, Stanley J.

The Jesuit, whiter and sicklier than before, murmured that he would go and rest after his journey, and with eyes steadily cast down he walked away.

From Helbeck of Bannisdale — Volume II by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

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

When that happened, he plunged into the most reckless melodrama, revelled in the sickliest sentiment, or evolved the most grotesque characters, the most fantastic plots.

From Landmarks in French Literature by Strachey, Giles Lytton

The town -- the greater Bay Area, for that matter -- is sicklied o'er with restaurants.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

Then had come the blow, and all his joys were "sicklied over" with the unhealthy tone which his image of her former lover gave him.

From Kept in the Dark by Trollope, Anthony

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 Bellamy, Edward

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 Crosby, Raymond Moreau

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

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 Gilbert, W. S. (William Schwenck), Sir

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 Aberigh-Mackay, George Robert