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To make (something) sickly.
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To become sickly.
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Frequently ill or in poor health.
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a sickly child
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Not in good health; (somewhat) sick.
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(of a plant) Characterized by poor or unhealthy growth.
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Appearing ill, infirm or unhealthy; giving the appearance of illness.
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a sickly pallor
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Shedding a relatively small amount of light; (of light) not very bright.
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Lacking intensity or vigour.
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a sickly smile
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Associated with poor moral or mental well-being.
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Tending to produce nausea.
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a sickly smell; sickly sentimentality
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Overly sweet.
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Marked by the occurrence of illness or disease (of a period of time).
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Tending to produce disease or poor health.
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a sickly autumn; a sickly climate
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In a sick manner; in a way that reflects or causes sickness.
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sickly pale; to cough sickly
Examples of sickly in a Sentence
He was fragile, narrow-shouldered and of a sickly constitution.
Saturday December 18th I am feeling really well, not too sickly at all thank goodness!
It's sweet, but not sickly and the youngest members of the family will love this comforting story.
The somewhat sickly smell of procrastination is in the air once again.
Instead, they are light green in color, and appear a little sickly.
It's all sickly sweet R&B DJ's and Ritzy chicks round here.
Two sickly ghouls, in the form of downstairs hippie neighbors disrupt Art and Guff's already somewhat untidy lives.
The antagonism between the "black" and the "white marquess" (the latter being the nickname given to Carmarthen in allusion to his sickly appearance), which had been forgotten in their common hatred to the French policy and to Rome, revived in all its bitterness.
He was a weak and sickly child of poor parents, and from his sixth to his fifteenth year, when he was left an orphan, he worked on a farm.
I shall never forget the strong sickly smell of bodies which had been in the hot sun for a fortnight.
Anthony Smith was the seemingly aloof uncle who moved the audience when he finally showed his love for his sickly son.
The house in Victoria Street where the sickly baby Lawrence was born.
Saturday December 18th I am feeling really well, not too sickly at all thank goodness !
It 's sweet, but not sickly and the youngest members of the family will love this comforting story.
It 's all sickly sweet R&B DJ 's and Ritzy chicks round here.
He was a sickly baby, who was baptized quickly, underlining the fact that he was not expected to survive.
Two sickly ghouls, in the form of downstairs hippie neighbors disrupt Art and Guff 's already somewhat untidy lives.
Avoid kittens that seem sickly, fatigued, or overly afraid.
It has mucus around the eyes, spits up mucous and is kind of sickly looking.
If your cat seems sickly and has an ongoing condition, you may want to consider having her tested as a general precaution.
Consult a veterinarian prior to using the medication on an elderly, young or sickly cat.
Of course, you don't want to look sickly, either, so it's important to utilize shades of pink that don't wash you out.
Although most neutrals are considered "safe"" for the majority, redheads should avoid drab tones to keep from appearing washed out and sickly.
Red shadows tends to add a sickly contrast to otherwise healthy complexions.
For some reason, the green tint of the highlighter made me look sickly.
It not only can make a face in the mirror look ugly, depending on the light, it can quickly reduce the atmosphere of a bathroom and turn it sickly green in appearance.
It must have a sheltered wall, but in a place not too dry and sunny, or the leaves turn a sickly yellow.
Very pale skin may look washed out and sickly against a bright blonde, whereas darker skin is best complimented by warmer hair colors.
Conditions such as excessive oiliness, seborrhea, or even normal dandruff are all indications of a sickly scalp.
A well chosen color can be fitting and glamorous, but a poor color choice can be sickly and unattractive - knowing how to choose a dye color can help you find the best shade for you.
Hence, the individual becomes malnourished and sickly.
Born in 1918, Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar was an incredibly sickly child.
His lengthy battle for health as a boy informed his fiction, but after a sickly youth, he grew into a hale, even athletic man, notably tall and broad.
In their place, mothers find an ill-tempered, irritable creature, or a sickly fairy child or even an object like a log of wood.
His frame was sickly and wasted with disease, yet when clad in his red cardinal's.
Her gaze traveled from the gloomy fortress to the sickly sky to the creature before her, whose fangs seemed to have grown even longer.
The poor and sickly viewed Tiyan as a kingdom of refuge, where magical waters prevented sickness and death to any who drank from them.
Trapped in his Dungeon of Love, prisoners are swamped by sickly sweet caresses.
Traumatized and sickly, she was rescued and today lives with other orphan chimps at the new island sanctuary.
Failure to degauss can lead to colors becoming sickly, or in extreme cases, complete color inversion.
For the public it wanted heroic figures which perpetuated racist myths or sickly sentimental kitsch.
The Earl of Carrick, now heir to the throne, was a sickly man with a pronounced limp.
The flickering green luminescence sent sickly shadows flowing over the decaying metal walls.
A sickly pallor overspread his countenance, and he trembled like an aspen.
The narrator is a sickly and middle-aged man called ' je ' attended by a very loyal family retainer called Celeste.
I know, a song about a young child that doesn't stick in the throat or drown in sickly sentimentality.
Everywhere she looked, sickly colors bounced from bubbling test tubes, and dark corners gave suspect shrieks.
One of the first things that Ragazzo noticed about the house in Coppice Row was the sweet rather sickly smell which hung over everything.
All I 'm getting from Dave at the moment is a really sickly grin.
Last night, the ruins north of town started to glow a sickly green.