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sickliest

Variant of sickly

adjective sicklier, sickliest

  1. in poor health; chronically sick or prone to sickness; not strong or robust
  2. of or produced by sickness: a sickly pallor
  3. characterized by the prevalence of disease or sickness; unhealthful
  4. sickening; nauseating: a sickly odor
  5. faint; feeble: a sickly light
  6. weak; mawkish: a sickly smile

adverb sicklier, sickliest

in a sick manner
also sicklily

transitive verb sicklied, sicklying

to make sickly, as in color

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Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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