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- adj. Superlative form of sickly.
Examples
“Blinded in his right eye just after birth when a midwife rinsed his eyes with a contaminated fluid, Mr. Jordan was the smallest and sickliest of 15 children born to migrant farm worker parents.”
The Washington Post: Esteban 'Steve' Jordan, virtuoso accordionist, dies at 71
“The sickliest states are among the first to be acting, and Illinois certainly qualifies.”
“Of all British institutions it now appears one of the sickliest," David Hare wrote in 1994, in a Charter 88 paperback called The Power and the Throne.”
The Guardian: Gone are the days of rejoicing over a royal wedding
“She's much smaller than my other two children and the sickliest.”
“Actually, it had to be the sickliest cake I've ever made.”
“Instead, they have taken the low-road by hand-cuffing and putting leg-irons on the sickliest and force-feeding them intravenously or through nose-drips.”
“The Original BRO-Log: Minister Faust Speaks: Predator countries reduce predation on eighteen sickliest sheep”
Predator countries reduce predation on eighteen sickliest sheep
“Predator countries reduce predation on eighteen sickliest sheep”
Predator countries reduce predation on eighteen sickliest sheep
“With the exception of the ten days occupied in composing the first part of this book, my brother often referred to this winter as the hardest and sickliest he had ever experienced.”
“Fliegende Blätter," the German "Punch," it is the sickliest imitation of humour possible to conceive.”
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