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Another word for sickly

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Adjective

  1. Affected or tending to be affected with minor health problems

    Idioms:
    See also:

    health

  2. Of or associated with sickness

    See also:

    health

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Another word for sickly

Modifier
  1. See also:

    sick

© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Sentence Examples

  • He was fragile, narrow-shouldered and of a sickly constitution.

  • His frame was sickly and wasted with disease, yet when clad in his red cardinal's.

  • Sickly and unfruitful trees may often be revived by bringing up their roots within 5 or 6 in.

  • He fancied he saw something pathetically innocent in that frightened, sickly little face.

  • The duke, a sickly and vacillating man, said nothing to Castlereagh, and took no steps, and Canning did not enlighten his colleague.

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