Sickly
Somewhat sick; disposed to illness; attended with disease; as, a sickly body.
Producing, or tending to, disease; as, a sickly autumn; a sickly climate.
Appearing as if sick; weak; languid; pale.
Tending to produce nausea; sickening; as, a sickly smell; sickly sentimentality.
In a sick manner or condition; ill.
To make sick or sickly; -- with over, and probably only in the past participle.
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Sickly Quotations
If we were living in ancient Rome or Greece, I would be considered sickly and unattractive. The times dictate that thin is better for some strange reason, which I think is foolish.
Gwyneth Paltrow
I was a very sickly kid. While I was in the hospital at age 7, my Dad brought me a stack of comic books to keep me occupied. I was hooked.
Len Wein
I don't know to what extent someone can BECOME an artist - you either are or you aren't - and if you are you'll HAVE to make your way to some kind of sickly light, no matter how terrible the soil you were seeded in your nature will out somehow.
David Knopfler
I was a sickly child, contracting tuberculosis at the age of five.
Dinah Sheridan
Do you not yet understand what has made woman what she is? Then see what the sickly taste and perverted judgment of man now admires in woman.
Ernestine Rose
Sickly Translations
sickly in Spanish is enfermizo
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