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

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

Carter Glass never outgrew his frailty, his sickliness, his ferocity with fists and tongue.

From Time Magazine Archive

These chilly damps and the cold rush of winds Fling a rough paleness o'er thy delicate cheek— And thou seem'st lovely in thy sickliness Of most transparent beauty:—but it grieves me.

From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley