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sickly

/ˈsɪkli/ adverb C2
  1. In a sick manner; in a way that reflects or causes sickness. · sickly pale; to cough sickly
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I should be glad to know what connection there can possibly be between your sickly sentimentality and the affairs of the state!”
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 56 · C1
A small garden sprinkled over with a scattered eruption of sickly plants separated each of these houses from the street, and was traversed by a narrow pathway, yellowish in colour, and consisting apparently of a mixture of clay and of gravel.
A Study in Scarlet, p. 26 · B2
She is unfortunately of a sickly constitution, which has prevented her making that progress in many accomplishments which she could not otherwise have failed of, as I am informed by the lady who superintended her education, and who still resides with them.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 74 · B2
Between these sickly shrubs grew a scanty supply of garlic, tomatoes, and eschalots; while, lone and solitary, like a forgotten sentinel, a tall pine raised its melancholy head in one of the corners of this unattractive spot, and displayed its flexible stem and fan-shaped summit dried and cracked by the fierce heat of the sub-tropical sun.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 277 · C1

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