peaky

How To Use peaky In A Sentence

• It would also have turned an already peaky engine into a serious screamer and would have undoubtedly have required shorter gearing to make it work.
• Palfreys, and notwithstanding a tendency in the male part of the family to jeer at him a little as "peaky" and bow-legged, he presently established his position as an accepted and frequent guest. Brother Jacob
• Their client was lean and tall, with the peaky face of an adolescent who was still growing.
• Some of the lads were beginning to look distinctly peaky.
• Mrs. Raven. –Apart from Mrs. Raven. –Uh, well, what about him? He looks a bit peaky.
• I was feeling a bit peaky tonight, and I crept off to bed early, and dropped off, despite the soundtrack burbling away in the background.
• But she was feeling a little peaky during lunch and I convinced her to let me stay home in the afternoon.
• She was already starting to look peaky and pale.
• She said she'd been in New York all week and I remarked to Cook that she looked a bit peaky... ` THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
• Then he had the gall to say, ‘Look, if he's very old and is looking a bit peaky don't put a correction in for a couple of days.