sallow
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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 canvas, 5 feet square, imposes the sentiment in a stack of crisp white words over snow-covered mountain scenery, the sky a sallow yellow fading upward into bilious green.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2023
“Mother was already dying ... her hands were blue, her complexion was sallow, there were circles under her eyes,” she said.
From Reuters ● Aug. 14, 2022
“If you’re cool, these warm colors will give you that sallow, yellow look to your skin. Even the whites of your eyes can go a little bit yellow.”
From Washington Post ● Aug. 16, 2021
The classroom door opened as she spoke, and Snape stepped into the corridor, his sallow face framed as ever by two curtains of greasy black hair.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
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
Maybe it was the light, but already I looked sallower, unhealthy.
From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer
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
Rogers came in late, and went away early, looking sallower and more indifferent than usual.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 554, June 30, 1832 by Various
There was the same man: his dark face rather sallower and more composed, his frame a stone or two heavier, perhaps, and no other difference.
From Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
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
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Romeo and Juliet
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The Kite Runner
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