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Discover LudwigThe phrase "feel sickly" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a state of feeling unwell or nauseous, often in a more general or prolonged sense.
Example: "After eating that questionable food, I started to feel sickly and had to lie down."
Alternatives: "feel nauseous" or "feel unwell."
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"I don't feel sickly".
"I mean, I don't look sickly, I don't feel sickly.
They make you feel sickly, and they're not good for you.
Avoid dairy products, you're more likely to feel sickly if you do.
Bazelli films virtually all the daylight scenes with a green wash that makes what should feel healthy – the forest, and countryside of a region that isn't far short of being heaven on Earth – feel sickly and fetid.
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If only Ingrid could see the movie we're seeing, she'd know why she feels sickly and lethargic.
He feels sickly and he always complains about it; one leg is swollen and very painful and he suspects it could be AIDS which is causing all that pain; that is why he is always anxious and wants to find out the real truth about his health... (HIV-positive woman, repeat).
I felt that sickly thrill of voyeurism that Agee and Evans had been so determined not to satisfy.
But even this felt somewhat sickly.
I don't wear pink because it makes me feel like a sickly amalgamation of an infant and cotton candy.
Even the language he uses is weirdly secondhand: a bizarre mélange of Hemingwayesque action prose and romance-novel clichés that manages to feel faux macho and sickly sweet at the same time.
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