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n. (context idiomatic usually with of English) A weak member of a peer group, especially the weakest.
Usage examples of "sick man".
He was wheezing from the walk and his cheeks were red, but it was not the flush of health but the mark of a sick man who had overexerted himself.
It's so big, even as a model, that even an angry sick man wouldn't call it a toy.
He was wheezing from the walk and his cheeks were red, but it was not the flush of health, but the mark of a sick man who had over-exerted himself.
The idea of coaxing a sick man's appetite back with this buzzard-fare is clear insanity.
Quietness and stillness, time and rest, these were what the sick man most required.
Emily's last days were moving toward their close when Charlie reappeared in my clinic, a mortally sick man.
Redlaw joined in it so fervently, and then so thanked and thanked me, and thanked Heaven, that my heart quite overflowed, and I could have done nothing but sob and cry, if the sick man had not begged me to sit down by him, - which made me quiet of course.
They had managed to force no nourishment into the sick man, and not much water.
Ferguson had lost an arm at the Saintes, and had returned to Falmouth a sick man.
A wounded or sick man they might gang up on and attack, but he was neither.
All that a sick man, irritated by suffering, can add of melancholy suppositions to probabilities always sad, Athos heaped up during the early hours of this dismal night.