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Never a good sailor, Samuel Insull tossed sickishly about on his little freighter reeking of stale oil and garlic and whimpered that shiploads of U. S. pirates were lying in wait to kidnap him.

From Time Magazine Archive

I enter a small room with a heavy desk, a yellow light shining sickishly on the dark green walls.

From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett

"The man 's crazy," he muttered sickishly, rising.

From The Day of Days An Extravaganza by Brown, Arthur William

But the glimmering of realization vanished as a sickishly sweet odor assailed his nostrils and sent its swift-moving tentacles upward to wrap themself soothingly about his brain.

From Astounding Stories of Super-Science April 1930 by Bates, Harry

We often ate the sickishly sweet little pears that were seen in profusion.

From A Gold Hunter's Experience by Hambleton, Chalkley J.