1. sickly - Adjective
2. sickly - Verb
3. sickly - Adverb
5. sickly - Adjective Satellite
Somewhat sick; disposed to illness; attended with disease; as, a sickly body.
Producing, or tending to, disease; as, a sickly autumn; a sickly climate.
Appearing as if sick; weak; languid; pale.
Tending to produce nausea; sickening; as, a sickly smell; sickly sentimentality.
In a sick manner or condition; ill.
To make sick or sickly; -- with over, and probably only in the past participle.
Source: Webster's dictionarySex without smiling is as sickly and as base as vodka and tonic without ice. Stephen Fry
Sherry...a silly, sickly compound, the use of which will transform a nation, however bold and warlike by nature, into a race of sketchers, scribblers, and punsters, in fact into what Englishmen are at the present day. George Borrow
I was the worst, most sickly kid of all – 30 pounds underweight. The girls used to beat me up. Actually I was a mean kid, early on because I had no self-esteem. Jack LaLanne
Fools die young and look sickly. American Proverb
The strong man's sport is the sickly man's death. German Proverb
Тоо many midwives deliver a sickly baby. Bulgarian Proverb