Crossword clues for sickly
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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.
--Keble. -
Tending to produce nausea; sickening; as, a sickly smell; sickly sentimentality.
Syn: Diseased; ailing; infirm; weakly; unhealthy; healthless; weak; feeble; languid; faint.
Sickly \Sick"ly\, adv. In a sick manner or condition; ill.
My people sickly [with ill will] beareth our marriage.
--Chaucer.
Sickly \Sick"ly\, v. t. To make sick or sickly; -- with over, and probably only in the past participle. [R.]
Sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought.
--Shak.
Sentiments sicklied over . . . with that cloying
heaviness into which unvaried sweetness is too apt to
subside.
--Jeffrey.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
1 frequently ill; often in poor health; given to becoming ill. 2 Having the appearance of sickness or ill health; appearing ill, infirm or unhealthy; pale. 3 weak; faint; suggesting unhappiness. 4 Somewhat sick; disposed to illness; attended with disease. 5 Tending to produce disease. 6 Tending to produce nausea; sickening. 7 overly sweet. adv. In a sick manner. v
(context transitive English) To make sickly.
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]
Usage examples of "sickly".
The Dowager, with a magnificent disregard for the coachman and the footman, perched on the box-seat in front of her, knew no such reticence, and discoursed with great freedom on the birth of an heir to the barony, animadverting with embarrassing candour, and all the contempt of a matriarch who had brought half-a-dozen children into the world without fuss or complications, on sickly young women who fancied themselves to be ill days before their time, and ended by suffering cross births and hard labours.
Awst be better when spring comes, aw think, But aw feel varry sickly an waik, Awve noa relish for mait nor for drink, An awm ommost too weary to laik.
Standing in the black group under gaunt trees at the cemetery, three days later, Bibbs unwillingly let an old, old thought become definite in his mind: the sickly brother had buried the strong brother, and Bibbs wondered how many million times that had happened since men first made a word to name the sons of one mother.
I felt at that moment that if I never saw it again it would be too soon, but I knew Chubby would treat it witth all the loving care of a mother for her sickly infant and that when the cyclone passed on, it would once more be ready for sea.
Baret, who, pale and sickly, thought a good deal more of his stockings than of the treasure marriage had given him--a treasure of which he was all unworthy, since he could not see its beauty nor taste its sweetness.
No getting around it, she was sickly, and there are some deuced odd rumors going around about the chit.
The sensation was similar to that created by an enema sickly sweat-making.
In addition to what looked like the original monastery buildings, Aiglemont had a glass solarium, which probably covered a pool of some sort, a structure housing the mechanical system for the funicular, a narrow concrete or stone patio in front, and a sickly piece of green which turned out to be a small, oblong patch of Alpine meadow that ran along the side of the main buildings and ended in an abrupt drop-off to the valley floor thousands of feet below.
Once, that sickly stream you see there was also pure and clear as the Ganga itself.
The air reeked of the sickly sweet aroma of gasohol, as New York always does.
We only just get the moving of sickly bodies completed before Moolifi and Gurd arrive upstairs.
De la Haye would often cry for joy when he saw me shedding tears caused by the contrition which he had had the wonderful cleverness to sow in my poor sickly soul.
And what are the joys that the modish share, In their sickly haunts of pleasure?
I UNO El ave y el nido Santo Domingo, 1856-1861 THE STORY OF MY life starts with the story of my country, as I was born six years after independence, a sickly child, not expected to live.
The stars had paled and a sickly gleam played about the east and was reflected on the earth.