sickish
AmericanOther Word Forms
- sickishly adverb
- sickishness noun
Etymology
Origin of sickish
Example Sentences
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His food company grew from the necessity to feed himself in a way that doesn’t make him sluggish or sickish in the water but clear and optimal.
From Washington Post • Nov. 25, 2020
Fernweh is similar to wanderlust but, like heimweh, has a sickish, melancholy tinge.
From New York Times • Sep. 23, 2015
Through the great hall floated the sickish scent of massed flowers, from Peking and all the conquered capitals of Eastern Europe, from Communist Parties all over, from Stalingrad and Stalino and Stalinabad and Stalinogrosk.
From Time Magazine Archive
The heaving of the breast, the rolling of the eyes, the pitching of the agony-stricken actors, in fact virtually all the fervid motions of emotion that have so long made cinema supporters sickish, are omitted.
From Time Magazine Archive
A sickish smell of heated oil pervaded the apartment, although everything was as clean and bright as hands could make it.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 by Various
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