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Recent Examples of pallor
His skin has the greyish pallor of spoiled beef, dotted with scabs and open wounds.
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Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 25 Dec. 2024
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
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.
—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
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Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 25 Dec. 2024
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
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.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pallor
whiteness
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With the family’s wealth, whiteness and lack of regard for others, many viewers might find themselves hard-pressed to sympathize, much less identify, with the Sinclars.—
Aramide Tinubu,
Variety,
18 June 2025
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The pursuit of health has become a kind of virtue in our society, but the ideal of ‘health’ is also very wrapped up in ideals of beauty, thinness and whiteness.—
Cara Lynn Shultz,
People.com,
9 June 2025
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“Pallor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pallor. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.
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