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

From Reuters ● Apr. 6, 2022

Later, his second cousin, the sallow “master of sarcasm,” Rep. John Randolph of Roanoke, does his darnedest to replace Madison with the seemingly supple Monroe in the race to succeed President Jefferson in 1808.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 29, 2020

He was reserved and formal, and his face was still taut and sallow, but he cheered up finally.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway

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

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

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

From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer

How often did she grow sallower in sheen than gold!

From The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus by Sir Richard Francis Burton

Gurr saluted, and stated his business, while the baronet, who had turned sallower and more careworn than his lot drew a breath full of relief.

From Cutlass and Cudgel by J. Schonberg

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