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Sick"ly (?), a. [Compar. Sicklier (?); superl. Sickliest.] 1. Somewhat sick; disposed to illness; attended with disease; as, a sickly body.
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This physic but prolongs thy sickly days. Shak.
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2. Producing, or tending to, disease; as, a sickly autumn; a sickly climate. Cowper.
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3. Appearing as if sick; weak; languid; pale.
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The moon grows sickly at the sight of day. Dryden.
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Nor torrid summer's sickly smile. Keble.
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4. Tending to produce nausea; sickening; as, a sickly smell; sickly sentimentality.
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Syn. -- Diseased; ailing; infirm; weakly; unhealthy; healthless; weak; feeble; languid; faint.
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Sick"ly, adv. In a sick manner or condition; ill.
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My people sickly [with ill will] beareth our marriage. Chaucer.
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Sick"ly, v. t. To make sick or sickly; -- with over, and probably only in the past participle. [R.]
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Sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought. Shak.
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Sentiments sicklied over . . . with that cloying heaviness into which unvaried sweetness is too apt to subside. Jeffrey.
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