Definition of "sicklies" []

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of sickly. (verb)

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• "We then spent the rest of the day sleeping – what a pathetic pair of sicklies we are!"
• "As a class, they were timid, —with good reason, —and timidity, which is high wisdom in philosophy, sicklies the whole cast of thought in action."
• "To feel the first kiss and forebode the last -- that is the shadow that haunts every joy, and sicklies o'er every action of him whom life has thus taught to look before and after."