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Outright racist commenters were also upset that Zegler, who has Colombian heritage, would be playing a character traditionally known for the pallor of her skin.
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Constance Grady, Vox, 21 Mar. 2025
Over the water the sky is glazed now with an Arctic pallor.
—Joyce Carol Oates, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2025
This at a time when a sluggish box office and a lack of employment in onscreen entertainment has already given the business a sickly Nosferatu-like pallor.
—Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2025
The Collegeville outfit came with the mask of a scowling pirate with an open eye-patch that looked more like a black eye and a sickly green pallor that would shiver the timbers of the saltiest sea dog.
—René Guzman, San Antonio Express-News, 2 Oct. 2024
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Constance Grady, Vox, 21 Mar. 2025
Over the water the sky is glazed now with an Arctic pallor.
—Joyce Carol Oates, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2025
This at a time when a sluggish box office and a lack of employment in onscreen entertainment has already given the business a sickly Nosferatu-like pallor.
—Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2025
The Collegeville outfit came with the mask of a scowling pirate with an open eye-patch that looked more like a black eye and a sickly green pallor that would shiver the timbers of the saltiest sea dog.
—René Guzman, San Antonio Express-News, 2 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pallor
whiteness
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These are, fundamentally, accounts of American whiteness, frozen in the form of silent, romanticized narratives of national character that erase Indigenous genocide and African enslavement and make their subjects over into picturesque anecdotes.—
Tom McDonough,
Artforum,
1 Nov. 2025
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The charm is routed from the chamber, the room saturated in 555 lux of whiteness.—
Rowan Jacobsen,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025
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“Pallor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pallor. Accessed 27 Nov. 2025.
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