PASTY Synonyms: 39 Similar and Opposite Words

pasty

adjective

ˈpā-stē

Definition of pasty

as in pallid

lacking a healthy skin color she's pasty after a whole winter spent indoors

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Recent Examples of pasty The title also refers, in a fond way, to the pasty white substance that can cling along with blood to a baby’s scalp just after its birth. — Literary Hub, 12 Mar. 2026 Just get over it, red-haired, pasty Kathy Griffin, with light-skinned, red-haired Karen Bass. — Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 10 June 2026 Because Teddy believes that the woman sitting before him, freshly shorn and covered in pasty white lotion, is not of this Earth. — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 23 Oct. 2025 Amidst the drunk, half-naked and lascivious troupe, Father Vincent O’Keeffe, in his dark black suit and pasty bald pate, strikes an incongruous figure. — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 24 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for pasty

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Opponents of the proposal want the county to consider different locations for the park site, arguing the project may harm a variety of native species to the area, including the western spadefoot toad and pallid bats.

— Hannah Elsmore, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 May 2026
While disrupting the business of an American multinational company may seem a pallid response to the destruction of an Iranian primary school where more than a hundred children were killed, such asymmetric attacks in the physical and digital realms have been a feature of this conflict.

— Sue Halpern, New Yorker, 24 Apr. 2026

Definition of pallid

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The room, its walls expensively craquelure'd to resemble fractured eggshells, its pale taffeta curtains billowing in the chill English breeze, is more Hollywood boudoir than office.

— Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 5 July 2026
But when taken together, our present divisions pale in comparison to the historical record.

— Drew Pittock, USA Today, 5 July 2026

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