sickly
enfermizo
definition
adjective
she was a thin, sickly child
often ill; in poor health.
the walls were painted a sickly green
(of a flavor, smell, color, or light) so unpleasant as to induce discomfort or nausea.
translation of 'sickly'
adjective
pálido,
enclenque,
enfermizo,
empalagoso,
malsano,
enfermo,
forzado,
macilento,
nauseabundo
example
Describing an object, sentiment or situation which is cute in a 'sickly' , laughable, boring, old, shudderingly childish and overly sweet way.
Hawley achieves the difficult task of walking the tightrope between sweet and 'sickly' sweet, between sentiment and sentimentality.
Without them the place was 'sickly' quiet, but Adam was too tired to do anything about it.
The sun never made quite an effect on him, resulting in a 'sickly' pale complexion, which was the basis of many a taunt.
There was a 'sickly' sweet smell surrounding them.
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.
I've had a lot of anticlimactic hot chocolate drinks lately: they're all syrupy, 'sickly' and goopy.
This King, of course, was a 'sickly' neurotic, whom every day brought nearer to complete mental disability.
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.
Usually I hated the 'sickly' smell of vanilla but today it was soothing.
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.
As a tyke, little Bobby Jones was a frail, 'sickly' kid, living under the auspices of protective parents, and a Puritanical grandfather.
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.
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.
In this state they contain small amounts of a poisonous alkaloid, and have a 'sickly' , unpleasant smell and taste.
Her figure was thin from undernourishment and her complexion a morose 'sickly' gray.
Variations in vineyard temperatures deliver flavours ranging from apples to tinned pineapple or, in extreme circumstances, to 'sickly' shrivelled sultanas.
So a bit of help from the 'sickly' oil fields themselves is welcome.
When I was a child, I was a weak, 'sickly' little thing.
Not only that, but his formerly vibrant face was now marred by a 'sickly' pallor and shadows under his eyes.
She could have easily passed for a corpse, complete with a 'sickly' pale complexion and dark circles under blood-shot eyes.
As I walked from work in the late winter Melbourne sunshine yesterday I smelled the 'sickly' , sweet stench of death.
The 'sickly' sweet smell is inescapable at local rock shows…
I enjoyed my creme brûlée, although the excess sugar was a bit 'sickly' .
While there were leaves, they were 'sickly' and frail and barely hanging on from their branches.
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.
Behind all its smug hypocrisy and 'sickly' sentimentality are the sinister outlines of the class war.
I left thoroughly turned-off by the film's weak, 'sickly' ending.
There was a 'sickly' sweet smell that surrounded it.
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