Definition of sickly in English:

sickly

adjectivesickliest, sicklier ˈsɪkliˈsɪkli

1Often ill; in poor health.
多病的；体弱的
she was a thin, sickly child
她是一个体弱多病的孩子。
Example sentencesExamples
- His wife is frail and sickly, and he is often without work.
- In history books, one can find descriptions of this Bulgarian king as ‘weak, sickly, meek and a poor statesman’.
- A real man, I used to say, no matter how sickly or incapacitated, should pick up a case by its handle and carry it like a man.
- A baby that appeared weak or sickly at birth, or had even a minor birth defect such a cleft pallet, hair lip, or cleft foot, or was in some other way imperfect was killed.
- While there were leaves, they were sickly and frail and barely hanging on from their branches.
- The predator weeds out the weak and the sickly (those incapable of participation).
- As a tyke, little Bobby Jones was a frail, sickly kid, living under the auspices of protective parents, and a Puritanical grandfather.
- I left thoroughly turned-off by the film's weak, sickly ending.
- When I was a child, I was a weak, sickly little thing.
- During the 19th century it had a reputation in Britain as a restorative food for invalids and sickly children, and was added to their diet in various forms.
- He had always been more comfortable with women; as a young boy, he was sickly and weak and preferred to stay at home with his mother and sisters rather than play with the boys.
- My true love returned a fortnight later, clearly shocked to see such a pale, weak and sickly frame propped up against a mountain of pillows.
- Physically he gives Alexei a gentle, frail, almost sickly presence that naturally arouses women's protective instincts.
- Rumoured to be sickly, deformed and incapable of producing heirs, Carlos was widely held to have only a few years to live.
- Scrawny and pale, with a mop of scruffy black hair and watery grey eyes, he looked sickly and weak.
- Colonel Brandon mentions wearing one, and Marianne takes this as a sign he is old and sickly, and incapable of being a lover.
- The incessant screech grew in a massive crescendo of sound, and made Vincent's entire body feel sickly and weak.
- ‘Remove these weak and sickly ones,’ he commanded of the soldiers that accompanied him.
- King was a sickly child, once bedridden for a year, and at the age of four he one day returned home silently after playing with a friend and crawled into bed.
- It was a tough birth, and I was a frail, sickly infant.
Synonyms
unhealthy, in poor health, chronically ill, often ill, always ill
delicate, frail, weak, feeble, puny
1. 1.1 (of a person's complexion or expression) indicative of poor health.
  （人的皮肤或表情）病态的，苍白的
  his usual sickly pallor
  他通常苍白的脸色。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The sun never made quite an effect on him, resulting in a sickly pale complexion, which was the basis of many a taunt.
  This King, of course, was a sickly neurotic, whom every day brought nearer to complete mental disability.
  Haru finally stated matter-of-factly; his face appearing childish from the sickly, sleepy expression he was wearing.
  Her sun baked skin had deteriorated to a grey, sickly pallor and her eyes had lost its bright sparkle.
  He was described as having ‘a sickly, pasty complexion’.
  If there was anything to be salvaged from the situation, it might've been said to have been worth it for the sickly expression on Rupert's face.
  Looking over, he saw a sickly, shocked expression on Jack's face.
  He needed a shave, his complexion was pale and sickly and he looked drastically deprived of sleep.
  She could have easily passed for a corpse, complete with a sickly pale complexion and dark circles under blood-shot eyes.
  When I was a baby, my eyes were as black as my hair and I recall my brothers calling me sickly for my pale pallor, though I was never ill.
  Not only that, but his formerly vibrant face was now marred by a sickly pallor and shadows under his eyes.
  Her figure was thin from undernourishment and her complexion a morose sickly gray.
  Synonyms
  pale, wan, pasty, colourless, sallow, pallid, white, waxen, ashen
  ashen-faced, anaemic, bloodless, peaky, peakish, languid, listless, washed out
  informal like death warmed up
  Scottish informal peely-wally
  rare etiolated, lymphatic
2. 1.2literary (of a place or climate) causing or characterized by unhealthiness.
  〈诗/文〉（地方，气候，时间）引起疾病的；有碍健康的
  a sickly vaporous swamp
  一个容易致病的、多雾的深沼泽地。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Variations in vineyard temperatures deliver flavours ranging from apples to tinned pineapple or, in extreme circumstances, to sickly shrivelled sultanas.
  In the corner of his room a sickly yellow glow was permeating through his wall, passing though it and away.
  Aaron went back to his sickly field and farmhouse.
  So a bit of help from the sickly oil fields themselves is welcome.
  Without them the place was sickly quiet, but Adam was too tired to do anything about it.
  As his skin blackened, a sickly aroma exploded throughout the alley.
  The yellow street lights caused the world to glow sickly as he moved through the downtown South District.
  The only sort of eye to be found in Dunham's paintings puts in an appearance in Beautiful Dirt Valley: the disembodied eye of heaven hovering in a sickly sky.
2(of a flavour, smell, colour, etc.) unpleasant in a way that induces discomfort or nausea.
（味道）令人反胃的；（气味）难闻的；（色彩）恶心的；（光线）令人不适的
the walls were painted a sickly green
墙壁刷成了一种令人恶心的绿色。
she liked her coffee sweet and sickly
她喜欢甜腻的咖啡。
Example sentencesExamples
- The sickly sweet smell is inescapable at local rock shows…
- I've had a lot of anticlimactic hot chocolate drinks lately: they're all syrupy, sickly and goopy.
- He feels like himself, but is trapped in a dog's body, describing in graphic detail the many pungent, metallic, meaty and sickly smells all around him.
- Just round the corner we pass Camden Market, a hypermarket of henna and hemp, where the pavements are packed and there's a rather different sickly sweet smell in the air.
- I entered the school and was met by the sweet, sickly smell of flowers and the dead.
- Her pale face stood out against the warm, creamy colours of the pillows and sheets, some of the smaller bruises starting to turn the sickly colour of yellow and brown.
- The atmosphere seemed stifling, the sweet, sickly smell in the air was unbearable.
- It was soupy and gloopy, sickly and sour, and downright wonderful.
- Bright white and blue flowers bloomed from them and smelled almost sickly sweet.
- The walls were the same sickly colour, the smell was the same of dense human aromas, and my feelings of determination and acceptance were one and the same.
- There was a sickly sweet smell that surrounded it.
- There was a sickly sweet smell surrounding them.
- His normally pale skin was a sickly green colour with a glistening sheen of sweat, his hair flopped lifelessly as the ship lurched from side to side, his eyes were drooping and he looked exhausted.
- I enjoyed my creme brûlée, although the excess sugar was a bit sickly.
- In this state they contain small amounts of a poisonous alkaloid, and have a sickly, unpleasant smell and taste.
- When a bug has fed it emits a sickly sweet smell to attract hungry relatives: a giveaway sign of infestation.
- Usually I hated the sickly smell of vanilla but today it was soothing.
- Flora saw her chance, lunged, and ripped into Moonlights chest and pulled out her heart, which was glowing a sickly purple.
- As I walked from work in the late winter Melbourne sunshine yesterday I smelled the sickly, sweet stench of death.
Synonyms
bilious, nauseating, distasteful, unattractive
lurid, garish, loud, violent
1. 2.1 Excessively sentimental or mawkish.
  多愁善感的；假装多情的
  a sickly fable of delicate young lovers
  关系微妙的年轻恋人多愁善感的故事。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Your Silent Nights and Joy to the Worlds manage to be special and festive without first being coated with a cubic kilometre of sickly sentimentality.
  Describing an object, sentiment or situation which is cute in a sickly, laughable, boring, old, shudderingly childish and overly sweet way.
  Those with an aversion to sickly sentiment should look away now.
  Behind all its smug hypocrisy and sickly sentimentality are the sinister outlines of the class war.
  The lyrics are so endearing, the sentiment so sickly sweet, that you can't help but sing along in faux earnest.
  Hawley achieves the difficult task of walking the tightrope between sweet and sickly sweet, between sentiment and sentimentality.
  When he asked the question, he shifted back to a patronising, sickly treacle-sweet voice.
  ‘Bon,’ Mademoiselle Piera said from the table, flashing Ryan her best sickly saccharine smile.
  I support you for the comments you made, and am glad you haven't retracted your views on the sickly sentimentality which is demeaning and undermining the true Britishness of our country.
  It displays the essence of Chopin's music that surely Fokine desired and rescues it from the sickly sentiment and yards of tulle that Les Sylphides usually heralds.
  Synonyms
  sentimental, over-sentimental, overemotional, mawkish, cloying, sugary, syrupy, saccharine, sickening, nauseating, maudlin, lachrymose, banal, trite
  British twee
  informal mushy, slushy, sloppy, schmaltzy, weepy, cutesy, lovey-dovey, gooey, drippy, sloshy, soupy, treacly, cheesy, corny, icky, sick-making, toe-curling
  British informal soppy
  North American informal cornball, sappy, hokey, three-hanky

Derivatives

sickliness

noun ˈsɪklɪnəsˈsɪklinəs

It was well worth venturing out in spite of my lingering sickliness.
Example sentencesExamples
- What is inherited is not the sickness but sickliness: the lack of strength to resist the danger of infections, etc., the broken resistance; morally speaking, resignation and meekness in face of the enemy.
- Then, in 1858, when malaria in the valley and foothills reached epidemic proportions, Logan attributed the region's sickliness to the environmental changes associated with mining and farming.
- But Chopin, too, fits certain pariah stereotypes: of effeminacy, sickliness, even degeneracy.
- Loving my children seemed to solve any problem they had - even discovering Kyle had cystic fibrosis at the age of seven - this was the reason for his low weight and sickliness as a baby.

Origin

Late Middle English: probably suggested by Old Norse sjúkligr.

Rhymes

prickly

Definition of sickly in US English:

sickly

adjectiveˈsiklēˈsɪkli

1Often ill; in poor health.
多病的；体弱的
she was a thin, sickly child
她是一个体弱多病的孩子。
Example sentencesExamples
- Colonel Brandon mentions wearing one, and Marianne takes this as a sign he is old and sickly, and incapable of being a lover.
- My true love returned a fortnight later, clearly shocked to see such a pale, weak and sickly frame propped up against a mountain of pillows.
- The predator weeds out the weak and the sickly (those incapable of participation).
- A baby that appeared weak or sickly at birth, or had even a minor birth defect such a cleft pallet, hair lip, or cleft foot, or was in some other way imperfect was killed.
- As a tyke, little Bobby Jones was a frail, sickly kid, living under the auspices of protective parents, and a Puritanical grandfather.
- Physically he gives Alexei a gentle, frail, almost sickly presence that naturally arouses women's protective instincts.
- It was a tough birth, and I was a frail, sickly infant.
- A real man, I used to say, no matter how sickly or incapacitated, should pick up a case by its handle and carry it like a man.
- King was a sickly child, once bedridden for a year, and at the age of four he one day returned home silently after playing with a friend and crawled into bed.
- While there were leaves, they were sickly and frail and barely hanging on from their branches.
- Scrawny and pale, with a mop of scruffy black hair and watery grey eyes, he looked sickly and weak.
- I left thoroughly turned-off by the film's weak, sickly ending.
- ‘Remove these weak and sickly ones,’ he commanded of the soldiers that accompanied him.
- When I was a child, I was a weak, sickly little thing.
- Rumoured to be sickly, deformed and incapable of producing heirs, Carlos was widely held to have only a few years to live.
- In history books, one can find descriptions of this Bulgarian king as ‘weak, sickly, meek and a poor statesman’.
- He had always been more comfortable with women; as a young boy, he was sickly and weak and preferred to stay at home with his mother and sisters rather than play with the boys.
- During the 19th century it had a reputation in Britain as a restorative food for invalids and sickly children, and was added to their diet in various forms.
- The incessant screech grew in a massive crescendo of sound, and made Vincent's entire body feel sickly and weak.
- His wife is frail and sickly, and he is often without work.
Synonyms
unhealthy, in poor health, chronically ill, often ill, always ill
1. 1.1 (of a person's complexion or expression) indicative of poor health.
  （人的皮肤或表情）病态的，苍白的
  his usual sickly pallor
  他通常苍白的脸色。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Her sun baked skin had deteriorated to a grey, sickly pallor and her eyes had lost its bright sparkle.
  Haru finally stated matter-of-factly; his face appearing childish from the sickly, sleepy expression he was wearing.
  He needed a shave, his complexion was pale and sickly and he looked drastically deprived of sleep.
  When I was a baby, my eyes were as black as my hair and I recall my brothers calling me sickly for my pale pallor, though I was never ill.
  He was described as having ‘a sickly, pasty complexion’.
  Not only that, but his formerly vibrant face was now marred by a sickly pallor and shadows under his eyes.
  The sun never made quite an effect on him, resulting in a sickly pale complexion, which was the basis of many a taunt.
  Looking over, he saw a sickly, shocked expression on Jack's face.
  If there was anything to be salvaged from the situation, it might've been said to have been worth it for the sickly expression on Rupert's face.
  Her figure was thin from undernourishment and her complexion a morose sickly gray.
  She could have easily passed for a corpse, complete with a sickly pale complexion and dark circles under blood-shot eyes.
  This King, of course, was a sickly neurotic, whom every day brought nearer to complete mental disability.
  Synonyms
  pale, wan, pasty, colourless, sallow, pallid, white, waxen, ashen
2. 1.2literary (of a place, climate, or time) causing or characterized by unhealthiness.
  〈诗/文〉（地方，气候，时间）引起疾病的；有碍健康的
  a deep sickly vaporous swamp
  一个容易致病的、多雾的深沼泽地。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The yellow street lights caused the world to glow sickly as he moved through the downtown South District.
  As his skin blackened, a sickly aroma exploded throughout the alley.
  The only sort of eye to be found in Dunham's paintings puts in an appearance in Beautiful Dirt Valley: the disembodied eye of heaven hovering in a sickly sky.
  So a bit of help from the sickly oil fields themselves is welcome.
  Variations in vineyard temperatures deliver flavours ranging from apples to tinned pineapple or, in extreme circumstances, to sickly shrivelled sultanas.
  Without them the place was sickly quiet, but Adam was too tired to do anything about it.
  In the corner of his room a sickly yellow glow was permeating through his wall, passing though it and away.
  Aaron went back to his sickly field and farmhouse.
2(of a flavor, smell, color, or light) so unpleasant as to induce discomfort or nausea.
（味道）令人反胃的；（气味）难闻的；（色彩）恶心的；（光线）令人不适的
the walls were painted a sickly green
墙壁刷成了一种令人恶心的绿色。
she liked her coffee sweet and sickly
她喜欢甜腻的咖啡。
Example sentencesExamples
- I've had a lot of anticlimactic hot chocolate drinks lately: they're all syrupy, sickly and goopy.
- His normally pale skin was a sickly green colour with a glistening sheen of sweat, his hair flopped lifelessly as the ship lurched from side to side, his eyes were drooping and he looked exhausted.
- Bright white and blue flowers bloomed from them and smelled almost sickly sweet.
- When a bug has fed it emits a sickly sweet smell to attract hungry relatives: a giveaway sign of infestation.
- As I walked from work in the late winter Melbourne sunshine yesterday I smelled the sickly, sweet stench of death.
- There was a sickly sweet smell surrounding them.
- I enjoyed my creme brûlée, although the excess sugar was a bit sickly.
- Usually I hated the sickly smell of vanilla but today it was soothing.
- In this state they contain small amounts of a poisonous alkaloid, and have a sickly, unpleasant smell and taste.
- There was a sickly sweet smell that surrounded it.
- Her pale face stood out against the warm, creamy colours of the pillows and sheets, some of the smaller bruises starting to turn the sickly colour of yellow and brown.
- Just round the corner we pass Camden Market, a hypermarket of henna and hemp, where the pavements are packed and there's a rather different sickly sweet smell in the air.
- It was soupy and gloopy, sickly and sour, and downright wonderful.
- The atmosphere seemed stifling, the sweet, sickly smell in the air was unbearable.
- The walls were the same sickly colour, the smell was the same of dense human aromas, and my feelings of determination and acceptance were one and the same.
- Flora saw her chance, lunged, and ripped into Moonlights chest and pulled out her heart, which was glowing a sickly purple.
- The sickly sweet smell is inescapable at local rock shows…
- I entered the school and was met by the sweet, sickly smell of flowers and the dead.
- He feels like himself, but is trapped in a dog's body, describing in graphic detail the many pungent, metallic, meaty and sickly smells all around him.
Synonyms
bilious, nauseating, distasteful, unattractive
1. 2.1 Excessively sentimental or mawkish.
  多愁善感的；假装多情的
  a sickly fable of delicate young lovers
  关系微妙的年轻恋人多愁善感的故事。
  Example sentencesExamples
  It displays the essence of Chopin's music that surely Fokine desired and rescues it from the sickly sentiment and yards of tulle that Les Sylphides usually heralds.
  Describing an object, sentiment or situation which is cute in a sickly, laughable, boring, old, shudderingly childish and overly sweet way.
  Behind all its smug hypocrisy and sickly sentimentality are the sinister outlines of the class war.
  Your Silent Nights and Joy to the Worlds manage to be special and festive without first being coated with a cubic kilometre of sickly sentimentality.
  I support you for the comments you made, and am glad you haven't retracted your views on the sickly sentimentality which is demeaning and undermining the true Britishness of our country.
  ‘Bon,’ Mademoiselle Piera said from the table, flashing Ryan her best sickly saccharine smile.
  When he asked the question, he shifted back to a patronising, sickly treacle-sweet voice.
  Those with an aversion to sickly sentiment should look away now.
  The lyrics are so endearing, the sentiment so sickly sweet, that you can't help but sing along in faux earnest.
  Hawley achieves the difficult task of walking the tightrope between sweet and sickly sweet, between sentiment and sentimentality.
  Synonyms
  sentimental, over-sentimental, overemotional, mawkish, cloying, sugary, syrupy, saccharine, sickening, nauseating, maudlin, lachrymose, banal, trite

Origin

Late Middle English: probably suggested by Old Norse sjúkligr.

单词	sickly
释义	Definition of sickly in English: sickly adjectivesickliest, sicklier ˈsɪkliˈsɪkli 1Often ill; in poor health. 多病的；体弱的 she was a thin, sickly child 她是一个体弱多病的孩子。 Example sentencesExamples His wife is frail and sickly, and he is often without work. In history books, one can find descriptions of this Bulgarian king as ‘weak, sickly, meek and a poor statesman’. A real man, I used to say, no matter how sickly or incapacitated, should pick up a case by its handle and carry it like a man. A baby that appeared weak or sickly at birth, or had even a minor birth defect such a cleft pallet, hair lip, or cleft foot, or was in some other way imperfect was killed. While there were leaves, they were sickly and frail and barely hanging on from their branches. The predator weeds out the weak and the sickly (those incapable of participation). As a tyke, little Bobby Jones was a frail, sickly kid, living under the auspices of protective parents, and a Puritanical grandfather. I left thoroughly turned-off by the film's weak, sickly ending. When I was a child, I was a weak, sickly little thing. During the 19th century it had a reputation in Britain as a restorative food for invalids and sickly children, and was added to their diet in various forms. He had always been more comfortable with women; as a young boy, he was sickly and weak and preferred to stay at home with his mother and sisters rather than play with the boys. My true love returned a fortnight later, clearly shocked to see such a pale, weak and sickly frame propped up against a mountain of pillows. Physically he gives Alexei a gentle, frail, almost sickly presence that naturally arouses women's protective instincts. Rumoured to be sickly, deformed and incapable of producing heirs, Carlos was widely held to have only a few years to live. Scrawny and pale, with a mop of scruffy black hair and watery grey eyes, he looked sickly and weak. Colonel Brandon mentions wearing one, and Marianne takes this as a sign he is old and sickly, and incapable of being a lover. The incessant screech grew in a massive crescendo of sound, and made Vincent's entire body feel sickly and weak. ‘Remove these weak and sickly ones,’ he commanded of the soldiers that accompanied him. King was a sickly child, once bedridden for a year, and at the age of four he one day returned home silently after playing with a friend and crawled into bed. It was a tough birth, and I was a frail, sickly infant. Synonyms unhealthy, in poor health, chronically ill, often ill, always ill delicate, frail, weak, feeble, puny 1.1 (of a person's complexion or expression) indicative of poor health. （人的皮肤或表情）病态的，苍白的 his usual sickly pallor 他通常苍白的脸色。 Example sentencesExamples The sun never made quite an effect on him, resulting in a sickly pale complexion, which was the basis of many a taunt. This King, of course, was a sickly neurotic, whom every day brought nearer to complete mental disability. Haru finally stated matter-of-factly; his face appearing childish from the sickly, sleepy expression he was wearing. Her sun baked skin had deteriorated to a grey, sickly pallor and her eyes had lost its bright sparkle. He was described as having ‘a sickly, pasty complexion’. If there was anything to be salvaged from the situation, it might've been said to have been worth it for the sickly expression on Rupert's face. Looking over, he saw a sickly, shocked expression on Jack's face. He needed a shave, his complexion was pale and sickly and he looked drastically deprived of sleep. She could have easily passed for a corpse, complete with a sickly pale complexion and dark circles under blood-shot eyes. When I was a baby, my eyes were as black as my hair and I recall my brothers calling me sickly for my pale pallor, though I was never ill. Not only that, but his formerly vibrant face was now marred by a sickly pallor and shadows under his eyes. Her figure was thin from undernourishment and her complexion a morose sickly gray. Synonyms pale, wan, pasty, colourless, sallow, pallid, white, waxen, ashen ashen-faced, anaemic, bloodless, peaky, peakish, languid, listless, washed out informal like death warmed up Scottish informal peely-wally rare etiolated, lymphatic 1.2literary (of a place or climate) causing or characterized by unhealthiness. 〈诗/文〉（地方，气候，时间）引起疾病的；有碍健康的 a sickly vaporous swamp 一个容易致病的、多雾的深沼泽地。 Example sentencesExamples Variations in vineyard temperatures deliver flavours ranging from apples to tinned pineapple or, in extreme circumstances, to sickly shrivelled sultanas. In the corner of his room a sickly yellow glow was permeating through his wall, passing though it and away. Aaron went back to his sickly field and farmhouse. So a bit of help from the sickly oil fields themselves is welcome. Without them the place was sickly quiet, but Adam was too tired to do anything about it. As his skin blackened, a sickly aroma exploded throughout the alley. The yellow street lights caused the world to glow sickly as he moved through the downtown South District. The only sort of eye to be found in Dunham's paintings puts in an appearance in Beautiful Dirt Valley: the disembodied eye of heaven hovering in a sickly sky. 2(of a flavour, smell, colour, etc.) unpleasant in a way that induces discomfort or nausea. （味道）令人反胃的；（气味）难闻的；（色彩）恶心的；（光线）令人不适的 the walls were painted a sickly green 墙壁刷成了一种令人恶心的绿色。 she liked her coffee sweet and sickly 她喜欢甜腻的咖啡。 Example sentencesExamples The sickly sweet smell is inescapable at local rock shows… I've had a lot of anticlimactic hot chocolate drinks lately: they're all syrupy, sickly and goopy. He feels like himself, but is trapped in a dog's body, describing in graphic detail the many pungent, metallic, meaty and sickly smells all around him. Just round the corner we pass Camden Market, a hypermarket of henna and hemp, where the pavements are packed and there's a rather different sickly sweet smell in the air. I entered the school and was met by the sweet, sickly smell of flowers and the dead. Her pale face stood out against the warm, creamy colours of the pillows and sheets, some of the smaller bruises starting to turn the sickly colour of yellow and brown. The atmosphere seemed stifling, the sweet, sickly smell in the air was unbearable. It was soupy and gloopy, sickly and sour, and downright wonderful. Bright white and blue flowers bloomed from them and smelled almost sickly sweet. The walls were the same sickly colour, the smell was the same of dense human aromas, and my feelings of determination and acceptance were one and the same. There was a sickly sweet smell that surrounded it. There was a sickly sweet smell surrounding them. His normally pale skin was a sickly green colour with a glistening sheen of sweat, his hair flopped lifelessly as the ship lurched from side to side, his eyes were drooping and he looked exhausted. I enjoyed my creme brûlée, although the excess sugar was a bit sickly. In this state they contain small amounts of a poisonous alkaloid, and have a sickly, unpleasant smell and taste. When a bug has fed it emits a sickly sweet smell to attract hungry relatives: a giveaway sign of infestation. Usually I hated the sickly smell of vanilla but today it was soothing. Flora saw her chance, lunged, and ripped into Moonlights chest and pulled out her heart, which was glowing a sickly purple. As I walked from work in the late winter Melbourne sunshine yesterday I smelled the sickly, sweet stench of death. Synonyms bilious, nauseating, distasteful, unattractive lurid, garish, loud, violent 2.1 Excessively sentimental or mawkish. 多愁善感的；假装多情的 a sickly fable of delicate young lovers 关系微妙的年轻恋人多愁善感的故事。 Example sentencesExamples Your Silent Nights and Joy to the Worlds manage to be special and festive without first being coated with a cubic kilometre of sickly sentimentality. Describing an object, sentiment or situation which is cute in a sickly, laughable, boring, old, shudderingly childish and overly sweet way. Those with an aversion to sickly sentiment should look away now. Behind all its smug hypocrisy and sickly sentimentality are the sinister outlines of the class war. The lyrics are so endearing, the sentiment so sickly sweet, that you can't help but sing along in faux earnest. Hawley achieves the difficult task of walking the tightrope between sweet and sickly sweet, between sentiment and sentimentality. When he asked the question, he shifted back to a patronising, sickly treacle-sweet voice. ‘Bon,’ Mademoiselle Piera said from the table, flashing Ryan her best sickly saccharine smile. I support you for the comments you made, and am glad you haven't retracted your views on the sickly sentimentality which is demeaning and undermining the true Britishness of our country. It displays the essence of Chopin's music that surely Fokine desired and rescues it from the sickly sentiment and yards of tulle that Les Sylphides usually heralds. Synonyms sentimental, over-sentimental, overemotional, mawkish, cloying, sugary, syrupy, saccharine, sickening, nauseating, maudlin, lachrymose, banal, trite British twee informal mushy, slushy, sloppy, schmaltzy, weepy, cutesy, lovey-dovey, gooey, drippy, sloshy, soupy, treacly, cheesy, corny, icky, sick-making, toe-curling British informal soppy North American informal cornball, sappy, hokey, three-hanky Derivatives sickliness noun ˈsɪklɪnəsˈsɪklinəs It was well worth venturing out in spite of my lingering sickliness. Example sentencesExamples What is inherited is not the sickness but sickliness: the lack of strength to resist the danger of infections, etc., the broken resistance; morally speaking, resignation and meekness in face of the enemy. Then, in 1858, when malaria in the valley and foothills reached epidemic proportions, Logan attributed the region's sickliness to the environmental changes associated with mining and farming. But Chopin, too, fits certain pariah stereotypes: of effeminacy, sickliness, even degeneracy. Loving my children seemed to solve any problem they had - even discovering Kyle had cystic fibrosis at the age of seven - this was the reason for his low weight and sickliness as a baby. Origin Late Middle English: probably suggested by Old Norse sjúkligr. Rhymes prickly Definition of sickly in US English: sickly adjectiveˈsiklēˈsɪkli 1Often ill; in poor health. 多病的；体弱的 she was a thin, sickly child 她是一个体弱多病的孩子。 Example sentencesExamples Colonel Brandon mentions wearing one, and Marianne takes this as a sign he is old and sickly, and incapable of being a lover. My true love returned a fortnight later, clearly shocked to see such a pale, weak and sickly frame propped up against a mountain of pillows. The predator weeds out the weak and the sickly (those incapable of participation). A baby that appeared weak or sickly at birth, or had even a minor birth defect such a cleft pallet, hair lip, or cleft foot, or was in some other way imperfect was killed. As a tyke, little Bobby Jones was a frail, sickly kid, living under the auspices of protective parents, and a Puritanical grandfather. Physically he gives Alexei a gentle, frail, almost sickly presence that naturally arouses women's protective instincts. It was a tough birth, and I was a frail, sickly infant. A real man, I used to say, no matter how sickly or incapacitated, should pick up a case by its handle and carry it like a man. King was a sickly child, once bedridden for a year, and at the age of four he one day returned home silently after playing with a friend and crawled into bed. While there were leaves, they were sickly and frail and barely hanging on from their branches. Scrawny and pale, with a mop of scruffy black hair and watery grey eyes, he looked sickly and weak. I left thoroughly turned-off by the film's weak, sickly ending. ‘Remove these weak and sickly ones,’ he commanded of the soldiers that accompanied him. When I was a child, I was a weak, sickly little thing. Rumoured to be sickly, deformed and incapable of producing heirs, Carlos was widely held to have only a few years to live. In history books, one can find descriptions of this Bulgarian king as ‘weak, sickly, meek and a poor statesman’. He had always been more comfortable with women; as a young boy, he was sickly and weak and preferred to stay at home with his mother and sisters rather than play with the boys. During the 19th century it had a reputation in Britain as a restorative food for invalids and sickly children, and was added to their diet in various forms. The incessant screech grew in a massive crescendo of sound, and made Vincent's entire body feel sickly and weak. His wife is frail and sickly, and he is often without work. Synonyms unhealthy, in poor health, chronically ill, often ill, always ill 1.1 (of a person's complexion or expression) indicative of poor health. （人的皮肤或表情）病态的，苍白的 his usual sickly pallor 他通常苍白的脸色。 Example sentencesExamples Her sun baked skin had deteriorated to a grey, sickly pallor and her eyes had lost its bright sparkle. Haru finally stated matter-of-factly; his face appearing childish from the sickly, sleepy expression he was wearing. He needed a shave, his complexion was pale and sickly and he looked drastically deprived of sleep. When I was a baby, my eyes were as black as my hair and I recall my brothers calling me sickly for my pale pallor, though I was never ill. He was described as having ‘a sickly, pasty complexion’. Not only that, but his formerly vibrant face was now marred by a sickly pallor and shadows under his eyes. The sun never made quite an effect on him, resulting in a sickly pale complexion, which was the basis of many a taunt. Looking over, he saw a sickly, shocked expression on Jack's face. If there was anything to be salvaged from the situation, it might've been said to have been worth it for the sickly expression on Rupert's face. Her figure was thin from undernourishment and her complexion a morose sickly gray. She could have easily passed for a corpse, complete with a sickly pale complexion and dark circles under blood-shot eyes. This King, of course, was a sickly neurotic, whom every day brought nearer to complete mental disability. Synonyms pale, wan, pasty, colourless, sallow, pallid, white, waxen, ashen 1.2literary (of a place, climate, or time) causing or characterized by unhealthiness. 〈诗/文〉（地方，气候，时间）引起疾病的；有碍健康的 a deep sickly vaporous swamp 一个容易致病的、多雾的深沼泽地。 Example sentencesExamples The yellow street lights caused the world to glow sickly as he moved through the downtown South District. As his skin blackened, a sickly aroma exploded throughout the alley. The only sort of eye to be found in Dunham's paintings puts in an appearance in Beautiful Dirt Valley: the disembodied eye of heaven hovering in a sickly sky. So a bit of help from the sickly oil fields themselves is welcome. Variations in vineyard temperatures deliver flavours ranging from apples to tinned pineapple or, in extreme circumstances, to sickly shrivelled sultanas. Without them the place was sickly quiet, but Adam was too tired to do anything about it. In the corner of his room a sickly yellow glow was permeating through his wall, passing though it and away. Aaron went back to his sickly field and farmhouse. 2(of a flavor, smell, color, or light) so unpleasant as to induce discomfort or nausea. （味道）令人反胃的；（气味）难闻的；（色彩）恶心的；（光线）令人不适的 the walls were painted a sickly green 墙壁刷成了一种令人恶心的绿色。 she liked her coffee sweet and sickly 她喜欢甜腻的咖啡。 Example sentencesExamples I've had a lot of anticlimactic hot chocolate drinks lately: they're all syrupy, sickly and goopy. His normally pale skin was a sickly green colour with a glistening sheen of sweat, his hair flopped lifelessly as the ship lurched from side to side, his eyes were drooping and he looked exhausted. Bright white and blue flowers bloomed from them and smelled almost sickly sweet. When a bug has fed it emits a sickly sweet smell to attract hungry relatives: a giveaway sign of infestation. As I walked from work in the late winter Melbourne sunshine yesterday I smelled the sickly, sweet stench of death. There was a sickly sweet smell surrounding them. I enjoyed my creme brûlée, although the excess sugar was a bit sickly. Usually I hated the sickly smell of vanilla but today it was soothing. In this state they contain small amounts of a poisonous alkaloid, and have a sickly, unpleasant smell and taste. There was a sickly sweet smell that surrounded it. Her pale face stood out against the warm, creamy colours of the pillows and sheets, some of the smaller bruises starting to turn the sickly colour of yellow and brown. Just round the corner we pass Camden Market, a hypermarket of henna and hemp, where the pavements are packed and there's a rather different sickly sweet smell in the air. It was soupy and gloopy, sickly and sour, and downright wonderful. The atmosphere seemed stifling, the sweet, sickly smell in the air was unbearable. The walls were the same sickly colour, the smell was the same of dense human aromas, and my feelings of determination and acceptance were one and the same. Flora saw her chance, lunged, and ripped into Moonlights chest and pulled out her heart, which was glowing a sickly purple. The sickly sweet smell is inescapable at local rock shows… I entered the school and was met by the sweet, sickly smell of flowers and the dead. He feels like himself, but is trapped in a dog's body, describing in graphic detail the many pungent, metallic, meaty and sickly smells all around him. Synonyms bilious, nauseating, distasteful, unattractive 2.1 Excessively sentimental or mawkish. 多愁善感的；假装多情的 a sickly fable of delicate young lovers 关系微妙的年轻恋人多愁善感的故事。 Example sentencesExamples It displays the essence of Chopin's music that surely Fokine desired and rescues it from the sickly sentiment and yards of tulle that Les Sylphides usually heralds. Describing an object, sentiment or situation which is cute in a sickly, laughable, boring, old, shudderingly childish and overly sweet way. Behind all its smug hypocrisy and sickly sentimentality are the sinister outlines of the class war. Your Silent Nights and Joy to the Worlds manage to be special and festive without first being coated with a cubic kilometre of sickly sentimentality. I support you for the comments you made, and am glad you haven't retracted your views on the sickly sentimentality which is demeaning and undermining the true Britishness of our country. ‘Bon,’ Mademoiselle Piera said from the table, flashing Ryan her best sickly saccharine smile. When he asked the question, he shifted back to a patronising, sickly treacle-sweet voice. Those with an aversion to sickly sentiment should look away now. The lyrics are so endearing, the sentiment so sickly sweet, that you can't help but sing along in faux earnest. Hawley achieves the difficult task of walking the tightrope between sweet and sickly sweet, between sentiment and sentimentality. Synonyms sentimental, over-sentimental, overemotional, mawkish, cloying, sugary, syrupy, saccharine, sickening, nauseating, maudlin, lachrymose, banal, trite Origin Late Middle English: probably suggested by Old Norse sjúkligr.
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