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Definition of Sickishness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sickishness
Literary usage of Sickishness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of American Verse (1610-1897) by James Lawrence Onderdonk (1901)
"sickishness was mistaken for tenderness. Silly and worn-out conceits still gushed
from our literary fonts, American Phile- ..."
2. The Freedmen's Book by Lydia Maria Francis Child (1865)
"If you have oppressed feelings in the head, or sour and bitter tastes in the
mouth, or a tendency to sickishness, take nothing but bread and water for two ..."
3. The Freedmen's Book by Lydia Maria Francis Child (1865)
"If you have oppressed feelings in the head, or sour and bitter tastes in the
mouth, or a tendency to sickishness, take nothing but bread and water for two ..."
4. History of American Verse (1610-1897) by James Lawrence Onderdonk (1901)
"sickishness was mistaken for tenderness. Silly and worn-out conceits still gushed
from our literary fonts, American Phile- ..."
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