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sickly

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
sickly/ˈsɪkli/

▶adjective (sicklier, sickliest)

1 often ill; in poor health.
■ causing, characterized by, or indicative of poor health.

2 inducing discomfort or nausea: a sickly green.
■ excessively sentimental or mawkish.

– derivatives
sickliness noun.

'sickly' also found in these Oxford entries:

bilious - cranky - goo - green - mawkish - peely-wally - weakly

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