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  • I substituted the mirin for some plum wine I happened to have on hand, but that couldn't have screwed up the recipe that badly because the dressing was still sickenly sweet.

    Archive 2008-07-01 Sarah Lenz 2008

  • Some are so sickenly tart that you can't finish a whole slice.

    Super Awesome Deluxe Key Lime Pie 2008

  • I substituted the mirin for some plum wine I happened to have on hand, but that couldn't have screwed up the recipe that badly because the dressing was still sickenly sweet.

    No Itadakimasu to Spam Sushi Sarah Lenz 2008

  • Regardless, the Trolls Are, as sad and as sickenly cowardly that may be.

    Obama Camp Uses McClellan Book To Parry McCain's "Baghdad Stroll" Attack 2009

  • I have not idea, but this approach is sickenly outdated as far as I am concerned.

    Show enhanced ads with Google Friend Connect 2009

  • Every announcer on their network now has to be pretty, sickenly cute.

    CNN maketh news… and taketh news away « BuzzMachine 2005

  • Birmingham Public Library found a way to combine genealogy with those sickenly sweet marshmallow Peeps!

    Archive 2007-04-01 2007

  • Instead of feeling disliked by him as I knelt reciting the psalter with my brother, I felt his warmth and kindness, I can almost smell that sickenly sweet odor of his rapidly decomposing body as I write.

    Archive 2006-07-16 Terry Nelson 2006

  • Instead of feeling disliked by him as I knelt reciting the psalter with my brother, I felt his warmth and kindness, I can almost smell that sickenly sweet odor of his rapidly decomposing body as I write.

    Justice and peace... Terry Nelson 2006

  • The enemy was preparing to fire, the high-pitchedwhooping sickenly familiar.

    Genellan- Planetfall Gier, Scott 2005

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