greensick
- a word derived from greensickness.
Example Sentences
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A first-novel love story whose greensick sentimentality Poet Lewis' revolutionary U. S. rooters will regret was not obscured in his less telltale verse.
From Time Magazine Archive
The big man had been greensick every day of their voyage.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
“A jape, Your Grace. From the ships. I was greensick the whole way from Volantis. Heaving and ... well, I shouldn’t say.”
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
He hoped his ""virtues" had done "sucking""—and declared such praise fit only to be a "cordial to some greensick sonnetteer."
From Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1. by Turnbull, A.
