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been sickly
adjective
Frequently ill; often in poor health; given to becoming ill.
Exact(13)
JAPAN'S economy has long been sickly.
The Japanese stockmarket has been sickly for years.
Pay growth has been sickly: between May and June average weekly earnings fell by 0.4%.
He had been sickly for months when in the winter of 1820 he coughed up blood.
His wound became infected, and Ellet, who had always been sickly, died less than two weeks later.
Unlike his predecessor, the Meiji emperor, the Taishō emperor had been sickly as a child and played almost no political role.
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[He] has become a creature looking before and after; and his native hue of resolution has been sicklied over by thought.
Its economy is sickly.
His complexion was sickly, yellow.
But still the performance was sickly.
In the late 1980s the economy was sickly.
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