cadaverous

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The first three occurred during major surgeries decades earlier, when doctors cooled his body to cadaverous temperatures and stopped his heart to repair major arteries weakened by an inherited disorder called Marfan syndrome.

From Washington Post

There’s William S. Burroughs, the “Naked Lunch” author, who “looks cadaverously beat” and “has a healthy appetite for bennies and horse.”

From Los Angeles Times

A first wave of cadaverous firms are seeking rebirth under a bankruptcy code adopted in December 2016.

From Economist

In 1847, he hypothesized that puerperal fever was spread by doctors carrying “cadaverous particles” from the deadhouse to the obstetrics ward at Vienna’s General Hospital.

From New York Times

He's also given the tall, gangling, slightly cadaverous writer ill-fitting clothes and cabbage-patch hair which he thinks were characteristic.

From BBC