Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a sickish manner.
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- adverb In a
sickish manner.
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Examples
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Her heart was dropping, dropping sickishly, into unending space.
The Palace of Darkened Windows Mary Hastings Bradley
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Then he saw Dr. William Holden looking greenish and ill and trying sickishly to answer questions from West and
Operation: Outer Space Murray Leinster 1935
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"The man 's crazy," he muttered sickishly, rising.
The Day of Days An Extravaganza Louis Joseph Vance 1906
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It was thick with pulverized coffee grounds, it was sickishly sweet, and it was strong and black enough to please the blackest Egyptian who ever desired that brand.
Patty Blossom Carolyn Wells 1902
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There was an odor of something sickishly sweet in the air for a moment, as the handkerchief was pressed to the boy's nostrils.
The Grammar School Boys of Gridley or, Dick & Co. Start Things Moving 1895
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I must have felt the whole thing as something for one's developed senses to live up to and make light of, and have been rather ashamed of my own for just a little sickishly staggering under it.
A Small Boy and Others Henry James 1879
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