as in pallid
having an unhealthy yellowish skin color
He looked tired and sallow. She has a sallow complexion.
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Recent Examples of sallow
The film is aggressively teal with a sallow greige (gray-beige) overcast.
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Courtney Howard,
Variety,
9 Oct. 2025
If the entire plant looks sallow and yellow, give it better nutrition.
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Leanne Potts,
Better Homes & Gardens,
17 Sep. 2025
An awkward, sallow, provincial, minor army officer, Napoleon, was irresistibly drawn to Joséphine, attracted by her proximity to the most powerful men in France.
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Anne Higonnet,
Vogue,
17 Nov. 2023
The eyes are sallow, the shoulders slumped, and the proud corona of hair is gone, instead a thin outline of flat, dark hair covers his head.
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Bob Guccione Jr,
SPIN,
17 Feb. 2023
See All Example Sentences for sallow
Courtney Howard,
Variety,
9 Oct. 2025
If the entire plant looks sallow and yellow, give it better nutrition.
—
Leanne Potts,
Better Homes & Gardens,
17 Sep. 2025
An awkward, sallow, provincial, minor army officer, Napoleon, was irresistibly drawn to Joséphine, attracted by her proximity to the most powerful men in France.
—
Anne Higonnet,
Vogue,
17 Nov. 2023
The eyes are sallow, the shoulders slumped, and the proud corona of hair is gone, instead a thin outline of flat, dark hair covers his head.
—
Bob Guccione Jr,
SPIN,
17 Feb. 2023
See All Example Sentences for sallow
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sallow
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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.
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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.
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If a sick animal did end up at a slaughterhouse, the US Department of Agriculture’s thorough meat inspection system would very likely spot it, separate it from others and deem it US Suspect.
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But when McGinley was a teen-ager, Michael became sick with AIDS and moved home to New Jersey.
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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.
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But when taken together, our present divisions pale in comparison to the historical record.
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Instead, the moss’s telltale sign of woe is its glum, grayish hue, a waxen appearance that comes from ferns and algae that have crept over it.
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But underneath, this micro-budget B movie is a jaundiced lament for the death of American individualism.
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The Scolding, 1965, a claustrophobic portrait of jaundiced and blotchy figures watching a contretemps, has some of the unsettling atmosphere of James Ensor’s 1890 canvas The Intrigue, in which a clutch of masked figures presses in on the viewer.
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Work took place in the spring and early summer and the pool was refilled in June, but an algae bloom returned just days later, turning the pool a sickly green color.
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In the heyday of her career, her choppy hair, flat chest, sickly pallor and large darting eyes were a manic pixie dream.
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One of the details described the placement of Guthrie's Apple Watch with a white wrist band that was left on the floor next to her bed.
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Paltrow wore a black, strapless gown and buckled slippers, while Martin sported a two-tone brown-and-blue sweater over a white T-shirt, with brown corduroy pants and a stylishly thin belt.
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But hot temps can turn them into a waxy mess before your eyes.
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White phosphorus is a solid, waxy chemical that ignites instantly when combined with oxygen.
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“Sallow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sallow. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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