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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Having positioned himself as the country’s next, truly transformative, leader, Sunak offered his party a weirdly pallid program: the dismantling of HS2, plus two long-range, complex policies, to abolish smoking and to reform the A-levels—England’s standard end-of-school exams.
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Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
Yes, in addition to the California poppy, California redwood, grizzly bear, and garibaldi fish, the pallid bat and the golden chanterelle are now official state symbols.
—Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 3 Jan. 2024
Those two pallid politicians sat on either side of him and bickered while Jesse sat silent.
—Letter Writers, Twin Cities, 9 Feb. 2024
Now, this pallid Color Purple epitomizes the artistic dearth of an era when a cultural mountebank like Winfrey uses race and feminist guile to cheat us of America’s most creative achievements.
—Armond White, National Review, 3 Jan. 2024
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Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
Yes, in addition to the California poppy, California redwood, grizzly bear, and garibaldi fish, the pallid bat and the golden chanterelle are now official state symbols.
—Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 3 Jan. 2024
Those two pallid politicians sat on either side of him and bickered while Jesse sat silent.
—Letter Writers, Twin Cities, 9 Feb. 2024
Now, this pallid Color Purple epitomizes the artistic dearth of an era when a cultural mountebank like Winfrey uses race and feminist guile to cheat us of America’s most creative achievements.
—Armond White, National Review, 3 Jan. 2024
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