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Neruda suffered from cancer, and he looked unwell, with a sickly yellow glow.

At 9:03, the second plane banked sickly toward the south tower as the world watched on television.

How did your family react to seeing you so skinny and sickly looking?

A hunter comes across a sickly gorilla, too weak to defend itself from the blows of his cleaver.

Seconds later my friend picked me up in front of the truck stop, his face a sickly shade of white.

If the father is old or sickly, the son sleeps near him by night, and does not leave his presence by day.

His face was sickly, and never free from the traces of acute anxiety that was eating at his heart.

The climate of those mountains is cold rather than temperate, and less healthful than sickly.

It is the offspring of a sickly taste, a deceitful heart, and a sure proof of low breeding.

His childhood, except when he could be rocked and sung into sickly sleep, was one long piteous wail.

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On this page you'll find 92 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to sickly, such as: ailing, cranky, feeble, infirm, lackluster, and below par.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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