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Comparative for weak and unhealthy, typically ill
“During the 19th century, it had a reputation in Britain as a restorative food for invalids and sickly children and was added to their diet in various forms.”
Comparative for excessively sentimental or mawkish
“Hawley achieves the difficult task of walking the tightrope between sweet and sickly sweet, between sentiment and sentimentality.”
Comparative for excessively or cloyingly sweet to taste
“He was again tasting the sickly welter of melted ice cream on his plate.”
Comparative for having the appearance of sickness or ill health
“She could have easily passed for a corpse, complete with a sickly pale complexion and dark circles under blood-shot eyes.”
Comparative for unpleasant in a way that induces discomfort to the senses or nausea
“The sickly smell of decomposition mingles with the scent of the flowers and encourages philosophizing on life and death.”
Comparative for not conducive to health or well-being
“So engrossed was she in simply breathing in the pure night air, so sweet after the sickly toxins of the lava, that it took a moment for the priestess's words to register.”
Comparative for so colorful as to be in bad taste
Comparative for displeasing to one's senses
Comparative for deeply felt by one's senses, especially if unpleasant
Comparative for lacking energy, spirit, liveliness or vitality
Comparative for characterized by an abnormal and unhealthy interest in disturbing, unpleasant or deathly subjects
Comparative for making fun of death, illness, or misfortune
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