sickliness
- a word derived from sickly.
Example Sentences
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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
I sat down by her without being attracted at all—rather repelled by the faint sickliness of everything connected with her appearance.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863 by Various
