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"sweet sickly" is a valid phrase that can be used in written English
It is commonly used to describe something that is overly sweet or cloying. Example: She couldn't finish the dessert because it was too sweet sickly for her taste.
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A bit sweet, sickly.
"Tea makes a blaze that's sweet, sickly and intense.
Irving Sealy, another neighbor, described a "sweet, sickly scent" settling over the neighborhood.
A sweet, sickly smell emanates from Ernessa's room and, one by one, Rebecca's clique begins to unravel.
Forget tucking a Rolex Oyster into my Christmas stocking, just slide in that foil-wrapped ball of sweet, sickly segments known as a Chocolate Orange.
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The new chocolate tasted "sweeter," "sickly," and "artificial," irate candy lovers ranted online.
The pudding was: "Far too sweet, too sickly, and too orangey".
The smells drifting into the cramped office of the South Durban Community Environmental Alliance range from sweet and sickly to stomach-churning.
But for one recent graduate of the University of Georgia, working in a cake shop for six months quickly turned from sweet to sickly.
Radiohead's music often also feels broad, looming and nonspecific, a growing wash of three-guitar harmony and rhythmic texture that hits sweet or sickly spots and subsides.
Beware drinking chocolates marketed at children or for mass cafeteria consumption; they are likely to be over sweet and sickly.
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