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sickly [ˈsıklı] ADJ

1. sickly:

sickly
病弱的 bìngruòde
sickly
虚弱的 xūruòde

sick [sık] ADJ

sick note N

sick pay N

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Ill health was considered synonymous with femininity, and a pale and sickly demeanour, normative.
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She was born two months prematurely and throughout her childhood she was a sickly child, nearly dying on one occasion due to a diphtheria infection.
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Don't suffer through life as a sniveling, sickly weakling -- brace up, man, get the blood pumping!
gizmodo.com
The decreased appetite will result in individuals appear scrawny, mangy, and sickly.
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Don't suffer through life as a sniveling, sickly weakling -- brace up and get the blood pumping!
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Crucifixes and holy water will be available round-theclock from night porters with sickly pallors.
www.theprovince.com
Instead, he had kept him at the farthest remove possible, in disgrace and contumely, and had suffered him to be held a sort of prisoner in marshy and sickly regions.
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He was a weak and sickly child and after he was orphaned at the age of twelve he was apprenticed at a printing office.
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The smell of the sickly pickles, tomato ketchup and grease.
www.telegraph.co.uk
Although he had been shown to be feeling sickly in the show for some time, he was wary of being tested.
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