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Superlative 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.”
Superlative for excessively sentimental or mawkish
“Hawley achieves the difficult task of walking the tightrope between sweet and sickly sweet, between sentiment and sentimentality.”
Superlative for excessively or cloyingly sweet to taste
“He was again tasting the sickly welter of melted ice cream on his plate.”
Superlative 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.”
Superlative 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.”
Superlative 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.”
Superlative for so colorful as to be in bad taste
Superlative for displeasing to one's senses
Superlative for deeply felt by one's senses, especially if unpleasant
Superlative for lacking energy, spirit, liveliness or vitality
Superlative for characterized by an abnormal and unhealthy interest in disturbing, unpleasant or deathly subjects
Superlative for making fun of death, illness, or misfortune
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