ADJECTIVE
  1. feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit
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How To Use sickish In A Sentence

  • It was thick with pulverized coffee grounds, it was sickishly sweet, and it was strong and black enough to please the blackest Egyptian who ever desired that brand. Patty Blossom
  • eights," owing to their containing nine passengers; that the ninth is called the "cock," and is a mere supernumerary or understudent, in case any member of the crew should be overcome by sickishness during the contest and desire to discontinue. Baboo Jabberjee, B.A.
  • My sore hands shake, a hot, sickish dread rises inside my chest.
  • I have a sickish sense of humor but I think this is time to plan my happy cake. Et Tu, O-Town?
  • I have to now face the fact that I, who am rarely sick, have been sickish for a week now, mostly with coughing phlegmy runny nose-and-eyes ick.
  • As Roy Dillon stumbled out of the shop his face was sickish green, and each breath he drew was an incredible agony. Point of View in Fiction
  • He answered me warmly that he entirely joined issue with me in such an opinion, and that he was often affected to sickishness by the snobbery of mundane society, adding that he hoped I would give him the look up at his paternal mansion in Prince's Square, Bayswater, shortly, since his people would be overjoyed at making my acquaintance, which both enraptured and surprised me, for hitherto he had ridden the high and rough-shoed horse, and employed me to suck my brains as a cat's foot. Baboo Jabberjee, B.A.
  • What was stranger yet was that he could not feel that there was anything wrong or foolish about it; he thought of his mother's severity about young folks 'sickishness, as she called it, and he could not understand it. The Minister's Charge
  • I have to now face the fact that I, who am rarely sick, have been sickish for a week now, mostly with coughing phlegmy runny nose-and-eyes ick.
  • Rising gradually to her feet, those sickish green eyes met the Captain's level, immediately locking on to those specks of electric blue.
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