palish

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Adjective
  • Five of them will be white balls with numbers from 1 to 70.
    Fernando Cervantes Jr, USA Today, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Applying coconut or walnut oil can go a long way towards disguising white scratches.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 12 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • One moment, the Sound of Sleat is a sheet of silver under a pale sun; the next, wind drives rain sideways into the distillery’s courtyard, rattling the pagoda roof.
    Gina Pace, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Curiosity and possibly even lust play into their first encounter; part of the welcome complexity between this pale-skinned woman of substance and this tall, equally alabaster, formerly dead drink of water is the ambiguity in their initial interactions.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • During a visit in August with two Times reporters, Mr. Perez’s skin was sallow.
    Aimee Ortiz, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2023
  • 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
Adjective
  • Morfydd Clark, pallid at first, has some emotive scenes at the wedding when Ophelia rails at Hamlet for turning away from her.
    Caryn James, HollywoodReporter, 30 Aug. 2025
  • Yet senior test kitchen editor Jesse Szewczyk recently took one of those pallid lumps and coaxed utter brilliance from it.
    Chris Morocco, Bon Appetit Magazine, 14 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Given shorter travel times, a greater number of people would be able to experience its otherworldly ashen plains.
    Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 10 Aug. 2025
  • In his post-game meeting with reporters, New York coach Tom Thibodeau looked ashen and was at loss for explaining what unfolded.
    Sean Gregory, Time, 22 May 2025
Adjective
  • If the land in question has been converted from agricultural fields to golf-course acreage, the net impact of those other factors might actually be lessened, but that’s a wan exculpation.
    David Quammen, Outside Online, 2 Mar. 2020
  • The industrial lagers were flavorless, wan and dilute; craft beer, by contrast, would be rich, complex and delicious.
    Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com, 31 Jan. 2020
Adjective
  • These emaciated, ashy pyromaniacs are led by Varang (Oona Chaplin), giving Queen of the Damned body tea in her bloodred makeup and statement headpiece.
    Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 28 July 2025
  • But, according to Bremer, preventing your under eyes from looking ashy is an important step too.
    Essence, Essence, 26 July 2025
Adjective
  • Boat shoes, collared shirt, sunburn, tan around sunglasses, pasty, red hair.
    Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Myers, the talent behind Wednesday’s roommate, Enid Sinclair, in the show, conversely, kept a pasty, pale visage, drawing attention to her deep plum lipstick.
    Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 6 Aug. 2025
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“Palish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/palish. Accessed 13 Sep. 2025.

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