A "valetudinarian" is a10-dollar word for someone who is sickly. From Wordnik.com. [post-gazette.com - News] Reference
I never write 'valetudinarian' at all, for not even hunger and wretchedness can humble me to the point where I will do a word like that for seven cents. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Twain's Speeches] Reference
Nothing like being up to date, even if valetudinarian. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 43rd Annual Meeting Rockport, Indiana, August 25, 26 and 27, 1952] Reference
Before he reached middle life he was a valetudinarian. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Literature] Reference
His chair came puffing along with a sort of valetudinarian slow importance. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Chatterley's Lover] Reference
For the moral valetudinarian small benefit is to be gained from a doctor who will. From Wordnik.com. [An Estimate of the Value and Influence of Works of Fiction in Modern Times] Reference
And, Sir, he is a valetudinarian, one of those who are always mending themselves. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D.] Reference
In person he was very thin and somewhat under the middle height, and had all the air of a confirmed valetudinarian. From Wordnik.com. [The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 2, February, 1891] Reference
At three and twenty he thought himself a valetudinarian, and passed his life in inspecting his tongue in the mirror. From Wordnik.com. [Les Miserables] Reference
Her valetudinarian but masterful father, son of a wool merchant, became sufficiently well-to-do to retire from business. From Wordnik.com. [Ada Leverson.] Reference
In March and April however, I would not advise a valetudinarian to go forth, without taking precaution against the cold. From Wordnik.com. [Travels through France and Italy] Reference
But besides the self-deception, the strong and hasty laborers of the street do not work well with the chronic valetudinarian. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862] Reference
Christmas was passed by me a valetudinarian at Macào, the ship having left me there, in hospital, on her passage from Hong-Kong to Whampoa. From Wordnik.com. [Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas] Reference
The gentlemen received the communication with stoical indifference, and Mrs. Tibbs devoted all her energies to prepare for the reception of the valetudinarian. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches by Boz] Reference
There goes in the world a notion, that the scholar should be a recluse, a valetudinarian, — as unfit for any handiwork or public labor, as a penknife for an axe. From Wordnik.com. [The American Scholar] Reference
But there is no hint of either editorial or valetudinarian seclusion in the fragmentary glimpses obtainable of Mr Justice Fielding during these eleven months of 1752. From Wordnik.com. [Henry Fielding: a Memoir] Reference
The valetudinarian, who is obliged to fly the world, in time fancies herself above it, and ends by supposing there is some superiority in differing from other people. From Wordnik.com. [A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Part I. 1792 Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners] Reference
And where it would have been impolitic to refuse a new and influential patient, some one on his list — a doubtful payer or a valetudinarian — was gently to be let drop. From Wordnik.com. [Australia Felix] Reference
No; the aspirer was forgotten in the valetudinarian. From Wordnik.com. [Ernest Maltravers — Complete] Reference
Earl John of Hereford seems to have been a valetudinarian. From Wordnik.com. [In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers] Reference
Yriarte, a nervous valetudinarian, eagerly accepted this despicable advice. From Wordnik.com. [William Pitt and the Great War] Reference
What is stranger still, with all this he was something of a valetudinarian. From Wordnik.com. [Loss and Gain The Story of a Convert] Reference
And there's a valetudinarian aspect to the place which I find slightly depressing. From Wordnik.com. [The Prairie Mother] Reference
I fell ill; and the friends who gathered round the wit fled from the valetudinarian. From Wordnik.com. [The Disowned — Complete] Reference
I doubt if he could live in retirement and inactivity -- the life of a valetudinarian. From Wordnik.com. [The Greville Memoirs (Second Part) A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1852 (Volume 1 of 3)] Reference
Boulogne died; the trust, of course, lapsed to Mr. Stubmore, the valetudinarian survivor. From Wordnik.com. [Lucretia — Complete] Reference
The most uninformed mind, with a healthy body, is happier than the wisest valetudinarian. From Wordnik.com. [The Writings of Thomas Jefferson Library Edition - Vol. 6 (of 20)] Reference
He was at once a valetudinarian and a voluptuary; and, in both characters, he loved his ease. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4] Reference
I felt that, were I to remain where I was, I should die, or become a confirmed valetudinarian. From Wordnik.com. [Lavengro; the Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest] Reference
The rarest sorts were flung about on rocks where nothing more valetudinarian than a baboon could possibly taste them. From Wordnik.com. [Hypolympia Or, The Gods in the Island, an Ironic Fantasy] Reference
He was accustomed to Mrs. Delarayne's occasional affectation of valetudinarian peevishness, alleged ill-health as a fact. From Wordnik.com. [Too Old for Dolls A Novel] Reference
The salutary effects of motion being now more striking than ever, he purchased a horse admirably adapted to a valetudinarian in. From Wordnik.com. [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference
Nora Avenel had fled from the boyish love of Harley L'Estrange, recommended by Lady Lansmere to a valetudinarian relative of her own. From Wordnik.com. [My Novel — Complete] Reference
They began to think me some poor valetudinarian; but though I was in torments, a feeling of vanity made me endeavour to behave sensibly. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova] Reference
He was an infirm valetudinarian, and was considered as sluggish in character, as deficient in martial enterprise, as timid of temperament as he was fragile and sickly of frame. From Wordnik.com. [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference
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