sickish
Example Sentences
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His food company grew from the necessity to feed himself in a way that doesn’t make him sluggish or sickish in the water but clear and optimal.
From Washington Post
“On some of the streets the stench — sweet and sickish from dead bodies — is overwhelming,” he wrote.
From Seattle Times
He could smell the sweet and now sickish odor of rum about himself.
From Literature
I enter a small room with a heavy desk, a yellow light shining sickishly on the dark green walls.
From Literature
I do not care for the Petunia close at hand on account of its sickish odor.
From Project Gutenberg
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
