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Definition of Sickishly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sickishly
Literary usage of Sickishly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library Journal by American Library Association, Library Association (1915)
"Aside from the actually immoral novel, we ought to shut out the sickishly silly
ones, which are debilitating, but by all means keep the wholesome stories ..."
2. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1917)
"... cup- or saucer-shaped, usually pendent in large usually erect panicles, opening
at night and then somewhat sickishly fragrant; pollination rarely occurs ..."
3. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1856)
"... but would lean and loll against the chairs and the mantel, looking sickishly
sweet upon all who came near ; and die-a-way Miss Morning Glory, ..."
4. Rhodora by New England Botanical Club (1901)
"I have already mentioned Cypripedium parviflorum whose peculiar, almost sickishly
sweet fragrance distinguishes it from C. pubescens. ..."
5. A Dictionary of the Hawaiian Language to which is Appended an English by Lorrin Andrews (1865)
"5. To beat against, as an opposing wiad. Mar. 6:48. PA-KU-I, P. To be unpleasant
to the taste ; to be sickishly sweet ; to send forth an odor; ..."
6. Dwight's Journal of Music: A Paper of Art and Literature by John Sullivan Dwight (1865)
"... much that is of the street and noisy ; much that is heavy and overwhelming,
without the least suggestion of grandeur; much that is sickishly sentimental ..."
7. Persia Past and Present: A Book of Travel and Research, with More Than Two by Abraham Valentine Williams Jackson (1906)
"For dessert on this occasion I had some sharbat, which was sickishly sweet in
taste, but was served in an antique brass saucer engraved with a tracery so ..."
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