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sicklier


  1  definition  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Sickly  \Sick"ly\,  a.  [Compar.  {Sicklier};  superl.  {Sickliest}.] 
  1.  Somewhat  sick;  disposed  to  illness;  attended  with  disease; 
  as  a  sickly  body. 
 
  This  physic  but  prolongs  thy  sickly  days.  --Shak. 
 
  2.  Producing,  or  tending  to  disease;  as  a  sickly  autumn;  a 
  sickly  climate.  --Cowper. 
 
  3.  Appearing  as  if  sick;  weak;  languid;  pale. 
 
  The  moon  grows  sickly  at  the  sight  of  day  --Dryden. 
 
  Nor  torrid  summer's  sickly  smile.  --Keble. 
 
  4.  Tending  to  produce  nausea;  sickening;  as  a  sickly  smell; 
  sickly  sentimentality. 
 
  Syn:  Diseased;  ailing;  infirm;  weakly;  unhealthy;  healthless; 
  weak;  feeble;  languid;  faint. 




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