cadaverous
IPA: kʌdˈævɝʌs
adjective
- Corpselike; hinting of death; imitating a cadaver.
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Examples of "cadaverous" in Sentences
- He really looked cadaverous.
- The cadaverous man made us afraid of him.
- His mother is a cadaverous old lady sorcerer.
- Cadaverous men were well fit for the horror movie.
- They thought the cadaverous man did not seem gloomy.
- On Holloween, people dress up like cadaverous people.
- They should not invited the cadaverous man to the meeting.
- They tried to make him look cadaverous by putting on make up.
- The patient looked cadaverous due to the paleness of her face.
- A cadaverous old lady sorcerer, and close colleague of Carolinus.
- Obama was always far more popular than the cadaverous Mr. Nelson.
- I keep thinking the word cadaverous but I know that’s wrong because I just like saying cadavers.
- Her cadaverous face drives her parents and friends to despair, but even so she refuses to feed herself.
- Those hells are therefore named accordingly; some are called cadaverous, some stercoraceous, some urinous, and so on.
- Vampires uncloaked, from ‘Nosferatu’ to ‘Twilight’ www. buffalonews.com: He was a tall, cadaverous old man with white hair and eyebrows so bushy they almost created a unibrow.
- Later, they would fall out over Louisa's desire to wear rouge in order to attenuate the "cadaverous" pallor of her complexion, which offended her husband's puritan sensibilities.
- In the past I was used to seeing a statue or banner of the Virgen de Guadalupe hanging from a bus's rear-view mirror, but now often the cadaverous figure of La Santa Muerte has become more and more common.
- Before he went, he formally thanked his wife -- who hardly spoke to him unless she was obliged -- for her attention to his mother, and then lingered a little, looking no less "cadaverous," certainly, than when he had gone away, and apparently desiring to say more.