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
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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
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Mr Devereux’s manners and habits were those of refined elegance, his tastes and opinions nice even to fastidiousness; and his perceptions acute on some points to a degree of sickliness.
From Tales from "Blackwood," Volume 2 by Various