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the sickly
adjective
Frequently ill; often in poor health; given to becoming ill.
Exact(60)
The sickly girl became the star.
Even the sickly euro zone has added some jobs.
ANC policy was to exempt the elderly and the sickly.
I was the sickly child, and she would save me.
The sickly green coloured mesh of my solitary confinement cage.
The sickly smell of death suffused the survivors' cell block.
But there's also the sickly sense of shame that comes with social transgression.
This is Hanuman town, where he seized mountain of medicinal herbals to heal the sickly Lakshman".
We stood there sweating and holding hands, a jarring sight in the sickly light.
Two litres of the sickly yellow tipple costs just £1.21 ($1.94), equivalent to 34p a pint.
Imports are rising, and money is dribbling back to the sickly banking system.
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