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Meanings of sickly in English

Somewhat ill or prone to illness.

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Unhealthy looking.

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Usage of sickly in English
1
Though not exactly sickly, neither is the market in the rudest health.
The Irish Times
2
She certainly looked very pale and sickly, just as Terence had said.
The rebels of ireland: the dublin saga
3
They looked like brothers in the sickly glow of the seal-oil lamp.
The River's End
4
The Sage of Rotterdam was old and sickly; his day was over.
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 02: Introduction II
5
Now their unsold homes are the bane of a sickly housing market.
Reuters
6
The town is extremely sickly; and sudden deaths have been very frequent.
Letters to His Son, 1766-71 / On the Fine Art of Becoming a Man ...
7
But there was nothing sickly in his eyes or in his expression.
The Secret Sharer
8
The red spots faded to a sickly yellow in the invalid's cheeks.
An Ambitious Man
9
He was mortally apprehensive, and had a sickly sensation in the stomach.
Buried Alive: A Tale of These Days
10
He didn't look sickly. Prince first found fame in the late 1970s.
Reuters
11
Its sickly, yellow-orange-colored atmosphere swirled; thick, cold storms lashed the icy surface.
The Cole Protocol
12
He wondered, sickly, if his vision was ever going to come back.
Edge of Infinity
13
She was pale; she had a very weary and rather sickly appearance.
Les Misérables
14
I caught the scent of new flat bread and sickly foreign cakes.
Shadows in Bronze
15
The time is wonderfully sickly; nothing but sore throats, colds, and fevers.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3
16
Octavian is so sickly that he'll never reach the age of forty-two.
The Memoirs of Cleopatra
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United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common
Ireland
Less common