cadaverous
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In cities like New York and San Francisco, cadaverous young men with lesions on their arms and faces were a frequent sight.
From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2024
Kawasaki had doubts about the promised future when her ferry arrived at a North Korean port and was met by hundreds of cadaverous people covered with soot from head to toe, she said.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 19, 2021
Semmelweis hypothesised that cadaverous particles from the morgue were to blame, and that such particles on the hands of doctors were making their way into women’s bodies during childbirth.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 18, 2020
Mr. Wood’s cadaverous, perpetually abstracted character rarely seems to register what Erie’s saying.
From New York Times ● Feb. 25, 2016
He brushed by a gaunt, cadaverous, trustful man in a black raincoat with a star-shaped scar in his cheek and a glossy mutilated depression the size of an egg in one temple.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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