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Перевод: sickly
[прилагательное] болезненный; нездоровый; вредный; тошнотворный; слабый; бледный (цвет); сентиментальный; слащавый
Тезаурус:
- Face pale and sickly
- The air which was almost suffocatingly warm (the remains of a fire glowed in the hearth) smelled of sugar and boiled milk and the sickly sweetness of fever.
- Just to show I'm nobody's fool I contacted a veterinary surgeon and asked him to examine the dog (who was a year old) to make sure it wasn't sickly, had a leg on each corner, wouldn't keep toppling over, and had a head fixed on the right end.
- Always a sickly woman, she expected to die in 1855 after a doctor had pronounced a disease of the heart to be fatal and quickly wrote her autobiography.
- For some time before this heavy clouds had increased and in the west the sky had become a dense purplish-black, a range of mountainous cumulus against which the outlines of buildings took on a curious clarity and the trees stood out livid and sickly bright.
- He'd been so sickly from birth and Sarah ached with sadness to see her tiny stepbrother losing hold on life.
- He would say "Goodnight all" (although she would be the only other person in the room), and then he would take the lift down to the chilly autumn street and Blackfriars station, all soot and sickly neon.
- They look rather sickly and there is rather a lot of black dust on the leaves and fruits.
- Maggie now slept on a low bed draped with a Chinese spread covered in dancing dragons and spinning suns, exactly underneath the centre of these windows, and on clear nights the moon rode over her head, and the clouds, illuminated a sickly yellow by the vastness of the city, would race past.
- A bog farmer with a few sickly cows.
- Born in Plymouth, Devon, to a poor stonemason, also called John and his wife Elizabeth, John Kitto was a sickly lad who cared for nothing but books.
- After take-off, a miracle I might have thought in other circumstances, the stewardess handed me a sickly sweet fruit drink and I tried to peer through the tight lattice of scratch marks on the window at the Andes, at the snow, at the jungle.
- Pop music (as in chart music) has a habit of sweeping whole areas aside to make way for newer, equally lightweight material from an equally sickly new wave.
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