Definition of Sickishly

1. Adverb. In a sickish manner. ¹

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Definition of Sickishly

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sickishly

sickeners
sickening
sickeningly
sickeningness
sickens
sicker
sickerly
sickerness
sickest
sickhouse
sickhouses
sickie
sickies
sicking
sickish
sickishly (current term)
sickishness
sickishnesses
sicklaemia
sickle
sickle-cell anaemia
sickle-cell anemia
sickle-cell disease
sickle-shaped
sickle alfalfa
sickle cell
sickle cell C disease
sickle cell anaemia
sickle cell anaemia: bone manifestations

Literary usage of Sickishly

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Library Journal by American Library Association, Library Association (1915)
"Aside from the actually immoral novel, we ought to shut out the sickishly silly ones, which are debilitating, but by all means keep the wholesome stories ..."

2. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1917)
"... cup- or saucer-shaped, usually pendent in large usually erect panicles, opening at night and then somewhat sickishly fragrant; pollination rarely occurs ..."

3. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1856)
"... but would lean and loll against the chairs and the mantel, looking sickishly sweet upon all who came near ; and die-a-way Miss Morning Glory, ..."

4. Rhodora by New England Botanical Club (1901)
"I have already mentioned Cypripedium parviflorum whose peculiar, almost sickishly sweet fragrance distinguishes it from C. pubescens. ..."

5. A Dictionary of the Hawaiian Language to which is Appended an English by Lorrin Andrews (1865)
"5. To beat against, as an opposing wiad. Mar. 6:48. PA-KU-I, P. To be unpleasant to the taste ; to be sickishly sweet ; to send forth an odor; ..."

6. Dwight's Journal of Music: A Paper of Art and Literature by John Sullivan Dwight (1865)
"... much that is of the street and noisy ; much that is heavy and overwhelming, without the least suggestion of grandeur; much that is sickishly sentimental ..."

7. Persia Past and Present: A Book of Travel and Research, with More Than Two by Abraham Valentine Williams Jackson (1906)
"For dessert on this occasion I had some sharbat, which was sickishly sweet in taste, but was served in an antique brass saucer engraved with a tracery so ..."

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