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Sickish   Listen
adjective
Sickish  adj.  
1.
Somewhat sick or diseased.
2.
Somewhat sickening; as, a sickish taste.





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"Sickish" Quotes from Famous Books



... plain hot," said he, "and that's all there is about it. And there's mighty little water, and what there is is sickish and a long ways apart. And the sun is strong enough ...
— The Mountains • Stewart Edward White
... meant to have made this quite a decent letter this morning, but listen. I had pain all last night, and did not sleep well, and now am cold and sickish, and strung up ever and again with another flash of pain. Will you remember me to everybody? My principal characteristics are cold, poverty, and Scots Law - three very bad things. Oo, how the rain falls! The mist is quite low on the hill. The birds are twittering to each other about ...
— The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson - Volume 1 • Robert Louis Stevenson
... deceiving of himself and others. Analysis! They analyzed in the name of truth, which apparently must and has the right to be said, everything, but especially the evil, dirt, human corruption. They did not notice that this pseudo-analysis ceases to be an objective analysis, and becomes a sickish liking for rotten things coming from two causes: in the first place from the corruption of the taste, then from greater ...
— So Runs the World • Henryk Sienkiewicz,


Words linked to "Sickish" :   ill, nauseous, queasy, nauseated


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