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sickly looking

ADJECTIVE
looking unhealthy
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He pulls up one of the more sickly looking plants and, where you should see peanuts dangling from the root, there's nothing.

From BBC Jul. 8, 2022

Her acrylic portraits of young Eleanor Roosevelt and “poor Mary Todd Lincoln,” of “real hot goth look” Franklin Pierce and a sickly looking William Henry Harrison, reveal another aspect of her wry visual eye.

From Washington Post Apr. 12, 2022

That pearly palette is among the most welcome signs that winter is upon us, with snow and colder air hopefully banishing painful memories of heat domes and sickly looking images of a barren Mount Rainier.

From Seattle Times Dec. 10, 2021

She takes no interest at all in sickly looking Mary, who in turns thinks of her not as a mother but as “Mem Sahib,” just like the servants do.

From Slate Aug. 7, 2020

Abby practically skipped toward that sickly looking pond.

From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry



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