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adjective

Sickish adj.

Somewhat sick or diseased.

Somewhat sickening; as, a sickish taste.

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Etymology of 'Sickish'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Sickish" Quotes from Famous Books

... sort of significance, as if they might some day or other have a small official duty to perform by him; and when an unexpected bankruptcy was announced by Cluffe or Toole in the club-room, it made his ear ring like a slap, and he felt sickish ...

— The House by the Church-Yard • J. Sheridan Le Fanu

... all into agreeing to the masquerade. Drew could not recall his last really full meal. Just thinking about food made a warm, sickish taste rise in his mouth. He brought out the hardtack which Boyd had so indignantly rejected the night before, and holding the chunk balanced on his saddle horn, rapped it smartly with the butt of a revolver. ...

— Ride Proud, Rebel! • Andre Alice Norton

... educated at Oxford. Many of his pieces are broadly comic. The principal plays are: The Arraignment of Paris, Edward I. and David and Bethsabe. The latter is overwrought and full of sickish sentiment. ...

— English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History - Designed as a Manual of Instruction • Henry Coppee

... on the bunk that Foo Sen had ingratiatingly allotted him. The air was close, heavy with the sweet, sickish smell of opium, and full of low, strange sounds and noises. And these sounds, in their composite sense, emanating from unseen sources, were as the ominous and sinister evidence of some foul and grotesque presence; analysed, ...

— The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale • Frank L. Packard

... more and the watchman was asleep—sound asleep, while a strange, sweet, sickish odor seemed to fill the ...

— Tom Swift in the Caves of Ice • Victor Appleton