Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The state of being poorly; ill health.
Wiktionary
- n. The quality of being poorly; ill health.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The quality or state of being poorly; ill health.
Etymologies
- poorly + -ness (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Ancelotti is clearly willing to risk the outside possibility of some on-pitch poorliness.”
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
“Fake poorliness rises by 20 per cent during leading sporting fixtures, and is highest in the public sector: NHS employees and social care workers typically take off more than twelve days each a year, and police and probation officers just under ten (hotel and restaurant workers in the private sector take fewer than five).”
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