sickly
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“I can’t even enjoy the video without thinking she looks sickly every second she is on the screen,” one person posted on YouTube.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026
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
“Horsegirls” might read on paper as too sickly sweet, but Meyering’s thoughtful direction and star Lillian Carrier’s performance keep it from tipping too far in that direction.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2026
Born coughing, Patti Smith was a sickly kid.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 25, 2025
Roosevelt would grow up to be “as fit as a bull moose,” but when he was a child, he was very sickly, frail, and nervous.
From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple
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
As for Ogden, his pale face grew a shade sicklier, and his green eyes more fishy.
From One Of Them by Charles James Lever
Slick and smear it over and leave it sounding sicklier and tubbier and more generally disgusting than ever.
From Mary Wollaston by Henry Kitchell Webster
The latter, as the significance of the question came home to him, went even a sicklier white, like the belly of a dead fish.
From The Untamed by Max Brand
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
"You ain't gettin' jealous, are you?" says I. Purdy unreefs the sickliest kind of a grin you ever saw.
From Side-stepping with Shorty by Sewell Ford
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
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
Oh, nothing, I'm just a little sicklied o'er ...
From Time Magazine Archive
The town -- the greater Bay Area, for that matter -- is sicklied o'er with restaurants.
From Time Magazine Archive
The smoke catches and turns them; they wilt or wither; and the bunches of flowers are sicklied over with the smuts and blacks of the roaring chimneys.
From Hurricane Island by H. B. Marriott (Henry Brereton Marriott) Watson
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 Raymond Moreau Crosby
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 Edward Bellamy
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 Sir W. S. (William Schwenck) Gilbert
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
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 George Robert Aberigh-Mackay
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