sallowness

Sallow is the reverse of healthy in proportion to the sallowness, as a usual thing.

The skin becomes like leather; the colour of the cheeks is replaced by sallowness.

The sallowness had left his face and a slight color appeared in his cheeks.

His natural colour is restored, and the sallowness is quite gone.

The careworn look had gone from his eyes, the sallowness from his complexion.

There was nothing unhealthy in her clear pallor, no hint of sallowness, but a soft, white glow.

He had outgrown the sallowness of early ill health, and had a fresh, brilliant complexion.

She noted the deep-orange stain on fingers as well as the twitching of muscles and sallowness of skin that came from nicotine.

The other, though possessing unrivalled beauty, is apt to impart a sallowness to the skin by frequent use.

The sallowness of his impassive face had increased somewhat, and his long thin hands had their old lackadaisical air.