sicklyadjective
uk/ˈsɪk.li/us/ˈsɪk.li/sickly adjective (ILL)
weak, unhealthy, and often sick:
a sickly child/plant
A sickly looking woman handed me my ticket.
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Not fit & healthy
- bedridden
- critical list
- crook
- danger list
- dehydrated
- emaciated
- far gone
- frailty
- groggy
- ill
- infirmity
- insufficiency
- knock
- not agree with sb idiom
- off-colour
- organic
- relapse
- shadow
- starved
- unhealthy
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sickly adjective (VOMIT)
disapproving causing a slight feeling of wanting to vomit:
A sickly smell of decaying fish came from the dirty river.
The chocolate cake was sickly sweet (= too sweet).
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Vomiting & feelings of sickness
- barf
- bring
- bring sth up
- churn
- disgorge
- gag
- morning sickness
- motion sickness
- regurgitate
- repeat
- repeat on sb
- retch
- sick
- sick as a dog idiom
- sick sth up
- spew
- spit (sth) up
- throw
- throw (sth) up
- turn sb's stomach idiom
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sickly adjective (TOO EMOTIONAL)
disapproving emotional, in an unpleasant or embarrassing way:
His books are sometimes accused of sickly sentimentality.
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Sentimental and over-emotional
- cloying
- mawkish
- mush
- mushy
- sappy
- schmaltz
- sentimental
- sentimentalism
- sloppy
- slush
- slushy
- soppy
- syrupy
- treacly