Definition of Sickliest

1. Adjective. (superlative of sickly) ¹

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Definition of Sickliest

1. sickly [adj] - See also: sickly

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sickliest

sicklemen
sicklemia
sicklemias
sicklemic
sicklepod
sickler
sicklerite
sicklers
sickles
sickless
sickleweed golden aster
sicklewort
sicklied
sicklier
sicklies
sickliest (current term)
sicklily
sickliness
sicklinesses
sickling
sickly
sickly-sweet
sickly sweet
sicklying
sickness
sickness benefit
sickness impact profile
sicknesses
sicko
sickoes

Literary usage of Sickliest

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

1. The Sunday Magazine by Thomas Guthrie, William Garden Blaikie, Benjamin Waugh (1873)
"justice to impart vigour to the sickliest frame. But it was no such holiday-errand which saw Battista di Rossi and his family established at San Rocca. ..."

2. The Cotton Kingdom: A Traveller's Observations on Cotton and Slavery in the by Frederick Law Olmsted (1862)
"I then asked her to show me which were the sickliest, and she did not point to any of the ... "Well, dey do say, master, dat de yellow ones is de sickliest, ..."

3. A Journey in the Back Country by Frederick Law Olmsted (1860)
"I then asked her to show me which were the sickliest, and she did not point to any of the ... Well, dey do say, master, dat de yellow ones is de sickliest, ..."

4. The African Repository by American Colonization Society (1835)
"... themselves being judges, it is not only the sickliest part of the coast, but the sickliest part of the whole earth. missionaries : and the other is, ..."

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