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Definition of Sicklier
1. sickly [adj] - See also: sickly
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sicklier
Literary usage of Sicklier
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1889)
"... and a smart bonnet ; like you seem to be yourself." " Нее ! hee ! Well, I was
going to tell you. After Dick died she turned sicklier and ..."
2. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1884)
"In the same way these poor babes from their very birth are stunted, and grow
sicklier and sicklier until death overtakes them. In permitting such a state of ..."
3. Bentley's Miscellany by Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith (1837)
"John got poorer and poorer, shabbier and shabbier, sicklier and sicklier. He had
been blown up by gas, burnt down by steam, ruined by railroads, ..."
4. Milk and Its Hygienic Relations by Lane-Claypon Forber, Great Britain Medical Research Committee (1916)
"The remaining two were twins, of whom the sicklier child was put upon raw milk,
and the healthier ... The sicklier one did better than the healthier one. ..."
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