sickly

1. (obsolete) Marked by the occurrence of illness or disease (of a period of time).Examples: "This physic but prolongs thy sickly days."; "a. 1768, Laurence Sterne, undated letter in Original Letters, London: Logographic Press, 1788, pp. 110-111, … if I thought the sentiments of your last letter were not the sentiments of a sickly moment—if I could be made to believe, for an instant, that they proceeded from you, in a sober, reflecting condition of your mind—I should give you over as incurable,"; "[...] the three years immediately following the last period [...] were years so sickly that the births were sunk to 10, 229, and the burials raised to 15, 068."obsolete

2. (obsolete) Tending to produce disease or poor health.Examples: "a sickly autumn; a sickly climate"; "Has some sickly eastern waste Sent us a wind to parch us at a blast?"; "Not far it [the water] runs before it finds a plain In which it spreads itself, and makes it marshy, And oft ’tis wont in summer to be sickly."Synonyms: insalubrious, unhealthy, unwholesomeobsolete