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valetudinarian


  • n  weak or sickly person especially one morbidly concerned with his or her health
  • a  of or relating to or characteristic of a person who is a valetudinarian

  • With the air of an unwilling valetudinarian, Michigan's handsome, boot-jawed Governor Kim Sigler got up to speak before the Economics Club of Detroit.
  • Other countries should be put on notice that Britain is nobody's poor relation and nobody's valetudinarian cousin.
  • THE NERVOUS WRECKSlapstick rattling against the ribs of the determined valetudinarian.

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