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  • adjective superlative form of sick: most sick.

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Examples

  • ALL we could do was provide the barest ammount of comfort care. we watched many, many people die. we practiced medical traige at its most basic, black tagging the sickest people and culling them from the masses so that they could die in a separate area.

    Dallas Blog, Daily News, Dallas Politics, Opinion, and Commentary FrontBurner Blog D Magazine » Blog Archive » REPORT FROM THE FRONT LINES 2005

  • Their beliefs held strength because they knew that holding up the poorest and the sickest was a noble, unselfish cause.

    Conservatism v. Democracy 2006

  • The problem is biologist characterize Natural Selection as "survival of the fittest", when in reality, the majority of the time it is survival of the luckiest and sometimes the "sickest" (i.e. sickle cell anemia, or other defects).

    The Weasel Thread 2009

  • The facts, as far as I can tell are these: we have the most expensive health care system in the industrialized world, yet we are the "sickest" country in the industrialized world, with one of the shortest life expectancies.

    shot in the arm, shot in the butt 2009

  • The facts, as far as I can tell are these: we have the most expensive health care system in the industrialized world, yet we are the "sickest" country in the industrialized world, with one of the shortest life expectancies.

    stop me if you think you've heard this one before 2009

  • Things progressed swimmingly, with the least sick nursing the sickest, until mid-week, when all of us qualified as "sickest" and were draped over the chairs and couch in the living room, eyeing each warily, wondering, "What now?"

    Archive 2004-02-01 M-mv 2004

  • Things progressed swimmingly, with the least sick nursing the sickest, until mid-week, when all of us qualified as "sickest" and were draped over the chairs and couch in the living room, eyeing each warily, wondering, "What now?"

    This is your brain. This is your brain on television. M-mv 2004

  • Things progressed swimmingly, with the least sick nursing the sickest, until mid-week, when all of us qualified as "sickest" and were draped over the chairs and couch in the living room, eyeing each warily, wondering, "What now?"

    02.04 M-mv 2004

  • Things progressed swimmingly, with the least sick nursing the sickest, until mid-week, when all of us qualified as "sickest" and were draped over the chairs and couch in the living room, eyeing each warily, wondering, "What now?"

    02.04 M-mv 2004

  • Things progressed swimmingly, with the least sick nursing the sickest, until mid-week, when all of us qualified as "sickest" and were draped over the chairs and couch in the living room, eyeing each warily, wondering, "What now?"

    02.04 M-mv 2004

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