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  • adjective comparative form of sickly: more sickly

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Examples

  • A starving vamps basically deflates and becomes sicklier and sicklier looking.

    2010 February « 2010

  • A starving vamps basically deflates and becomes sicklier and sicklier looking.

    Vamps with a pulse and why/how writers make world building decisions « 2010

  • But unless politicians grasp the urgency of health-care reform soon, public balance sheets could look far sicklier.

    Governments Need Urgent Health Check Richard Barley 2012

  • Creditors typically renegotiate the terms — as they have done to much sicklier newspaper companies than the New York Times Co.

    Archive 2009-01-01 2009

  • His tiny heartbeat was visible through the yellow Big Bird hospital gown that made him look jaundiced and sicklier than he was.

    The Life You Longed For Maribeth Fischer 2007

  • His tiny heartbeat was visible through the yellow Big Bird hospital gown that made him look jaundiced and sicklier than he was.

    The Life You Longed For Maribeth Fischer 2007

  • His tiny heartbeat was visible through the yellow Big Bird hospital gown that made him look jaundiced and sicklier than he was.

    The Life You Longed For Maribeth Fischer 2007

  • His tiny heartbeat was visible through the yellow Big Bird hospital gown that made him look jaundiced and sicklier than he was.

    The Life You Longed For Maribeth Fischer 2007

  • He seemed in talk aggressive, petulant, full of a singular energy; as vain you would have said as a peacock, until you trod on his toes, and then you saw that he was at least clear of all the sicklier elements of vanity.

    Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin 2005

  • It is certain that Balzac did not adequately take this into account, certain also that in parts of his Comedy, the secret, unconscious sympathy of the author with some of his sicklier heroes and heroines could not and did not have that dynamic moral action which he vainly desired.

    Balzac 2003

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