The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sickly \Sick"ly\, a. [Compar. Sicklier; superl. Sickliest.]
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Somewhat sick; disposed to illness; attended with disease; as, a sickly body.
This physic but prolongs thy sickly days.
--Shak. Producing, or tending to, disease; as, a sickly autumn; a sickly climate.
--Cowper.-
Appearing as if sick; weak; languid; pale.
The moon grows sickly at the sight of day.
--Dryden.Nor torrid summer's sickly smile.
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Tending to produce nausea; sickening; as, a sickly smell; sickly sentimentality.
Syn: Diseased; ailing; infirm; weakly; unhealthy; healthless; weak; feeble; languid; faint.
Wiktionary
a. (en-superlativesickly)
WordNet
adj. unhealthy looking [syn: sallow]
somewhat ill or prone to illness; "my poor ailing grandmother"; "feeling a bit indisposed today"; "you look a little peaked"; "feeling poorly"; "a sickly child"; "is unwell and can't come to work" [syn: ailing, indisposed, peaked(p), poorly(p), unwell, under the weather]
See sickly
Usage examples of "sickliest".
My heart was healthy-a fit abode for the sickliest of disembodied vampire spirits-and I didn't want to be a shadow while I still had blood to feed a shadow's thirst.
But as the moon waned, she faded, until at last she was wan and withered like the poorest, sickliest child you might come upon in the streets of a great city in the arms of a homeless mother.
He was the sickliest child, and at one time I despaired of rearing him.
Why, that boy was the puniest, scrawniest, sickliest little runt that ever drew a wheezy breath.
To compound this ignorance Lockhart's education, grounded in the most ancient of classical virtues, complemented Jessica's taste for the sickliest of historical romances in which sex was never mentioned.