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Another word for sickly

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sickly

modif.

ailing, weak, weakly, feeble; see sick.

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Another word for sickly

adjective

Affected or tending to be affected with minor health problems:
ailing, indisposed, low, mean², off-color, rocky. Idiom: under the weather. See health
Of or associated with sickness:
anemic, peaked, sick. See health

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He was fragile, narrow-shouldered and of a sickly constitution.
In person Propertius was pale and thin, as was to be expected in one of a delicate and even sickly constitution.
It is probably only sickly adults or young children of the human race who can be actually killed by a scorpion's sting.
Spiders abound, from a giant species to one of the minutest dimensions, and the tree-bug is always ready to make a destructive lodgment in any sickly tree-stem.
Irascibility is regarded as permissible in sickly children only: grown people are supposed to be superior to displays of impatience.

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