adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a sickly smell (= sweet and unpleasant )
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the sweet, sickly smell of decaying human flesh
sickly sweet (= unpleasantly sweet )
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the sickly sweet smell of rotting fruit
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
child
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Patsy was a sickly child , growing very little in the first few years of his life.
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He suffered from allergies, like his great-uncle Theodore Roosevelt, and was a sickly child for much of his early years.
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Favouritism is equally bad for the favourite, who is often a sickly child , or the baby of the family.
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My brother grew up as if he was a sickly child .
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There was a handful of verminous women, too, and even a few sickly children .
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Indeed, he was a sickly child , succumbing with monotonous regularity to ear and throat infections.
smell
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When the wind was in the west a sickly smell floated over the pits.
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He hadn't shaved for a few days and a sickly smell clung to his clothes and hair.
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As usual, it was the strange smell that repelled him - a sweet sickly smell that he couldn't identify.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Daryl was a pale, sickly child.
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He was a sickly child with a bad chest and a permanent cough.
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Louise, who was often sickly , couldn't join in the other children's games.
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The melons were overripe and had a sickly taste.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Every surface glistened green and a sickly white.
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He suffered from allergies, like his great-uncle Theodore Roosevelt, and was a sickly child for much of his early years.
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His wife was sickly and he also feared for his young son's life.
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It was hot and jammed and the air was redolent with the sickly sweet smell of cheap champagne.
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It was indeed an adult version of the sickly white faces of the boys in the playground.
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My brother grew up as if he was a sickly child.
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She liked her coffee sweet and sickly below a head of warm foam.
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This improbable though captivating adventure slides neatly from sickly empire to bloody revolution that tears the lovers apart.