adjective
- Unhealthy looking.
- synonyms: sallow
- Somewhat ill or prone to illness.
- usage: "my poor ailing grandmother"; "feeling a bit indisposed today"; "you look a little peaked"; "feeling poorly"; "a sickly child"; "is unwell and can't come to work"
- synonyms: ailing, indisposed, peaked, poorly, unwell, under the weather, seedy
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