sallow
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The results were patchy, worsening the effect of my grown-out roots and sallow skin.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 19, 2022
“For the last 2½ months, we showed the world. … The impossible became the routine for us,” Samoilenko said, looking sallow on the video, his beard grown wild.
From Washington Post • May 12, 2022
The haunting figure, his flesh a sallow yellow as if a waxwork, lies surrounded by brown fallen leaves.
From Reuters • Apr. 6, 2022
He now believes his braces forced him to mouth-breathe, narrowing his upper jaw and contributing to his sallow appearance and recessed chin.
From New York Times • Aug. 20, 2020
I did not go above-decks today, being too ill; but those who did, say there are many sallow faces to be seen upon the fo’c’sles of other ships.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
Vocabulary lists containing sallow
Romeo and Juliet
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