corpselike

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Normally a deep pink, this thumbnail-size organ was blanched a corpselike gray.

From Science Magazine • Jun. 21, 2023

Some sufferers also experience high sensitivity to sunlight — described in some depictions of vampires — which leads to corpselike skin.

From Salon • Oct. 25, 2021

Divided into four parts, the book focuses on Winge and Cardell’s investigation in its first and final sections, with Winge himself growing sicker and more corpselike every day.

From Washington Post • Mar. 1, 2019

Attracted by the corpselike smell, they crawl into the flower, find no carrion, and get stuck in gooey pollen, which they carry out with them and spread throughout the world.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 1, 2016

From boyhood to manhood, I have remembered him in a single image: seated, asleep on the sofa, his head thrown back in a hideous corpselike grin, the evening newspaper spread out before him.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez