etiolated
Example Sentences
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A sadly etiolated Princess Margaret died at 71 in 2002.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2024
Succulent varieties that require more direct light will become etiolated and lose color without it.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 30, 2022
And this book about “million-dollar babies” has a lot of million-dollar words: etiolated, accidie, budgerigar.
From New York Times ● Feb. 15, 2022
He is no longer just the arch mannerist, the etiolated epigone of Michelangelo, perverse and stylised in equal measure.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 22, 2010
Already, on the walk from the station, the May sunshine had made him feel dirty and etiolated, a creature of indoors, with the sooty dust of London in the pores of his skin.
From "1984" by George Orwell
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