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
To Vasily’s left, one man lay against a grass verge next to his bicycle, his face sallow and eyes sunken.
From Reuters • Apr. 2, 2022
He now believes his braces forced him to mouth-breathe, narrowing his upper jaw and contributing to his sallow appearance and recessed chin.
From New York Times • Aug. 20, 2020
The bassoonist, a man of sallow and heavy cast, said, “You carry tales.”
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
Vocabulary lists containing sallow
Romeo and Juliet
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