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Sicklied

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sick·ly  (skl)
adj. sick·li·er, sick·li·est
1. Prone to sickness.
2. Of, caused by, or associated with sickness: a sickly pallor.
3. Conducive to sickness: a sickly climate.
4. Causing nausea; nauseating.
5. Lacking vigor or strength; feeble or weak: a sickly handshake.
tr.v. sick·lied, sick·ly·ing, sick·lies
To make sickly: "Timidity . . . sicklies the whole cast of thought in action" (Henry Adams).
sickli·ness n.
sickly, sickli·ly adv.


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No doubt I was secretly proud to have been invalided in so great a cause, and to be sicklied over with the pale cast of thought, rather than by some ignoble ague or the devastating consumption of that region.
My Literary Passions by Howells,William Dean View in context
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