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Afraid of giving an impression of sickliness, Trump reportedly resisted advisers who told him he should be helicoptered to Walter Reed on Friday, before eventually giving in.

From Slate • Oct. 6, 2020

This sickliness broods over many a deviant lag and three-putt green.

From Golf Digest • May 7, 2020

Present-day letters, which some doctors have diagnosed as convalescing from a long siege of bilious morbidity, is breaking out in occasional patches that seem reminiscent of the same sort of adolescent sickliness.

From Time Magazine Archive

So they may be excused for choking on the sudden sickliness of so-called state tobacco bonds.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is needless to dwell on the hand-feeding of infants as one of the great causes of mortality in infancy, and of sickliness in later life.

From The Mother's Manual of Children's Diseases by West, Charles