sickly
Example Sentences
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Modi, as the Italian was affectionately called, was urbane, well-groomed and handsome, while Soutine was destitute, sickly and notoriously unwashed.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025
Smith was a sickly child, contracting bronchial pneumonia, tuberculosis, German measles, mumps and chicken pox which kept her in "periods of lengthy bed rest".
From BBC • Nov. 4, 2025
Even before ICE got him, he had been sickly.
From Slate • Oct. 27, 2025
Esteemed horror veteran Mike Flanagan is an executive producer and you can sense Stuckmann grabbing aimlessly in the last third for the kind of sickly visual elegance that is Flanagan’s deliberative style.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 23, 2025
It was indeed an adult version of the sickly white faces of the boys in the playground.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
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