Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being poorly; ill health.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being poorly; ill health.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The quality of being
poorly ; ill health.
Etymologies
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poorly + -ness
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Examples
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Ancelotti is clearly willing to risk the outside possibility of some on-pitch poorliness.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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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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