sallow

When they film themselves preening on their phones, with the images projected onto the giant mirrors, Claire and Solange use filters that turn their sallow, pinched faces into plump-lipped, high-cheekboned ones that suggest Kim Kardashian.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026

The results were patchy, worsening the effect of my grown-out roots and sallow skin.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2022

The yellow-orange stain of surgical antiseptic is sallow on my skin, accented by the remains of purple felt-tip-pen markings that are not hypothetical indicators this time.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 17, 2022

The haunting figure, his flesh a sallow yellow as if a waxwork, lies surrounded by brown fallen leaves.

From Reuters ● Apr. 6, 2022

The brown mustache, the knobby chin, the sallow yellowed flesh and small dark eyes, all melted.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

His. long lank hair is still brown, makes him look like a smaller, sallower edition of the late Sir Henry Irving.

From Time Magazine Archive

Maybe it was the light, but already I looked sallower, unhealthy.

From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer

Her face was sallower, and there was a long scar, partly hidden by the hair, across her forehead and temple; but that was not the change.

From "1984" by George Orwell

Chekhov was already changing; he looked haggard, older, sallower.

From Letters of Anton Chekhov by Constance Garnett

"Master!" said Wylie, and his sallow face grew sallower and sicklier.

From The O'Donoghue Tale Of Ireland Fifty Years Ago by Charles James Lever

It was quite unaccountable that Mrs. Deane, the thinnest and sallowest of all the Miss Dodsons, should have had this child, who might have been taken for Mrs. Tulliver's any day.

From The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot