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- adjective
superlative form ofsickly : mostsickly .
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Examples
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"Of all British institutions it now appears one of the sickliest," David Hare wrote in 1994, in a Charter 88 paperback called The Power and the Throne.
Gone are the days of rejoicing over a royal wedding Catherine Bennett 2010
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The sickliest states are among the first to be acting, and Illinois certainly qualifies.
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The sickliest states are among the first to be acting, and Illinois certainly qualifies.
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Blinded in his right eye just after birth when a midwife rinsed his eyes with a contaminated fluid, Mr. Jordan was the smallest and sickliest of 15 children born to migrant farm worker parents.
Esteban 'Steve' Jordan, virtuoso accordionist, dies at 71 2010
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She's much smaller than my other two children and the sickliest.
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Actually, it had to be the sickliest cake I've ever made.
Archive 2007-10-01 Spinningfishwife 2007
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Actually, it had to be the sickliest cake I've ever made.
Mair Cakes. Spinningfishwife 2007
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Instead, they have taken the low-road by hand-cuffing and putting leg-irons on the sickliest and force-feeding them intravenously or through nose-drips.
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The Original BRO-Log: Minister Faust Speaks: Predator countries reduce predation on eighteen sickliest sheep
Predator countries reduce predation on eighteen sickliest sheep 2005
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Predator countries reduce predation on eighteen sickliest sheep
Predator countries reduce predation on eighteen sickliest sheep 2005
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