as in pale
lacking a healthy skin color
a pallid man who looked as though he'd never seen the sun
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Recent Examples of pallid
Robert Vaughn is a particularly pallid villain, and the movie’s case against computers, uh, hasn’t aged too well.
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Tim Grierson, Vulture, 11 July 2025
Similar prompts yielded images of a skull with glowing eyes hovering above an ornate cross, and another pallid, blank-eyed woman — this one hooded, with a halo of fire, crying blood.
—Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 22 June 2025
Rickman’s Snape was almost cartoonish with his hawk nose and long, straight black hair and pallid skin.
—Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025
Smith’s skin took on a new color, one more pallid with a blue, purple undertone.
—Kirsten Fiscus, Nashville Tennessean, 22 May 2025
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Tim Grierson, Vulture, 11 July 2025
Similar prompts yielded images of a skull with glowing eyes hovering above an ornate cross, and another pallid, blank-eyed woman — this one hooded, with a halo of fire, crying blood.
—Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 22 June 2025
Rickman’s Snape was almost cartoonish with his hawk nose and long, straight black hair and pallid skin.
—Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025
Smith’s skin took on a new color, one more pallid with a blue, purple undertone.
—Kirsten Fiscus, Nashville Tennessean, 22 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pallid
pale
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The heiress and entrepreneur has a princess moment in a romantic pale pink gown with floral appliqués and a matching cape.—
Brittany Talarico,
PEOPLE,
4 Nov. 2025
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These figures, while shocking, unfortunately pale in comparison to those from the recent war, now widely recognized as a genocide.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Nov. 2025
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“Pallid.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pallid. Accessed 17 Nov. 2025.
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