infirm
adjective
feeble or weak in body or health, especially because of age; ailing.
infirmly
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a word derived from
infirm.
Example Sentences
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"Oh, Lavvie! the Dowager Countess is downstairs, and her ladyship likes the pictures," exclaimed the old man, snuffling and smiling infirmly in a flutter of nervous glee.
From Hide and Seek by Wilkie Collins
The Margarita, that was next to the Consolacion in greatness, sailed so infirmly that mercy 'twas the seas were smooth.
From 1492 by Mary Johnston
The burden of a mighty genius would never have been imposed upon shoulders so physically frail and a spirit so infirmly sensitive.
From P.'s Correspondence (From "Mosses from an Old Manse") by Nathaniel Hawthorne
