sicker

[ sik-er ]

adjective

Words Nearby sicker

sicker²

[ sik-er ]

adjective

adverb

before 900; Middle English siker,Old English sicor; cognate with Dutch zeker,German sicher, all ≪ Latin sēcūrus;see secure

Seven vaccinated people who ended up sicker than they expected shared their stories and said they did not want to cast doubt on vaccines — because they believe their outcome would have been much worse had they not been inoculated.
They’re called mild cases. But people with breakthrough covid can still feel pretty sick. | Fenit Nirappil | August 31, 2021 | Washington Post
Possibilities include a sicker patient population and less effective care, Goodman said.
The Two Hospitals Have Similar Infant Death Rates — Until You Look at Extremely Premature Babies | by Bryant Furlow, New Mexico In Depth | March 30, 2021 | ProPublica
Americans are sicker and taking more pills than ever, and our doctors are miserable.
Clinton Doc: This Is How We’ll Fix Health Care | Daniela Drake | June 12, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
So instead of better care and cheaper care, satisfaction scoring is making patients sicker and driving up costs.
You Can't Yelp Your Doctor | Daniela Drake | May 21, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
The new insurance system relies on young, healthy consumers to help share the risk with older, sicker ones.
How Low Will Health Care Enrollments Be? Here’s What to Watch For | Charles Ornstein | November 13, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST

Putting younger workers in the same plans forces them to subsidize the sicker and older.
How Could the GOP Have Improved Obamacare? | Megan McArdle | May 10, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
And, as predicted by numerous professionals, they are sicker and more dangerous than when they went behind bars.
Why I Fear the Aryan Brotherhood—and You Should, Too | Anonymous | April 1, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
How, then, do you not recognize one whose heart is sicker than your own?
The Lion's Brood | Duffield Osborne
The longer she rode the sicker she felt and the more appalled and ashamed and frightened she grew.
The Camerons of Highboro | Beth B. Gilchrist
But a man gets sick of working with punks and cheap hoods; he gets sicker of killing off a planet he's learned to like.
Police Your Planet | Lester del Rey
The more I thought of it, the sicker I became, and now what was I to do?
From North Carolina to Southern California Without a Ticket and How I Did It | John Peele
Fellows, I have never been sicker than I was at that moment, but once.
"Say Fellows--" | Wade C. Smith

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