pallid

Example Sentences

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The lopsided scoreline was just reward for two-time European champions Chelsea, who were superior from the first whistle against a pallid Barcelona team.

From Barron's

One of the first songs they wrote together was A Whiter Shade of Pale - apparently inspired by Stevens making a remark about his wife's pallid demeanour.

From BBC

Because the alternative is pallid mush, short on honesty and condemned to vapidity.

From Washington Post

In dozens of ICU rooms, patients lay pallid and motionless, tubes down their throats, as beeping machines pumped drugs into their system and ventilators forced air into their weakened lungs.

From Seattle Times

"The movie is a pallid, dull slog of bad acting and worse storytelling," wrote Richard Lawson, who stressed - with a cruel pun - that it was "not worth staying in for".

From BBC