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1
chronically or repeatedly suffering from poor health
- a sickly foal that seemed to catch everything that the other horses had
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2
bad for the well-being of the body
- lungs scarred by years of exposure to the sickly air of the coal mines
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“Sickly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sickly. Accessed 19 Jan. 2022.
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The first known use of sickly was in the 14th century
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