sickly looking
Example Sentences
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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
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
A minute later, we see a sickly looking skunk come out from behind a rock, and Bob is thrilled.
From New York Times • Nov. 18, 2019
Her skin, once vanilla-coated and scattered with freckles, is now grayish and sickly looking.
From "Like Vanessa" by Tami Charles
