tubercular

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Her tubercular pale skin and flushed cheeks contributed to her allure.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

Garner, a tubercular local railroad worker “snatched from the grave by radium” at the British-American Medical Institute at 859 South Figueroa, where, restored to health, he went to work operating the institute’s “electro-ozo-viro-radium treatment machine.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 28, 2021

He travels the world showing and filming urban street commotion, a slow-motion falling cat and — tenderly but creepily — the very last breaths of his own tubercular sister, Odette, in a Paris sanitarium.

From Washington Post • Jun. 10, 2019

I fake a coughing fit and hack like a tubercular Victorian, all over those two gorgeous, declarative lines.

From The Guardian • Mar. 30, 2019

Then both he and Ben scouted the terrain beneath the water tower half expecting the tubercular, sallow face of Junior Palmer to appear as an apparition before the long climb to the catwalk could begin.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy