sallowness
IPA: sˈæɫoʊnʌs
noun
- The property of being sallow, yellowishness.
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Examples of "sallowness" in Sentences
- Resigned to another day of sallowness, he picked up the black.
- Pugio was hard, almost stringy, and there was an ashy sallowness about his skin.
- For her dark sallowness, for her wilful mastery, he had only had a passing fancy.
- Yet this doesn't necessarily have to mean that we're all doomed to sags and sallowness.
- It was rather thin, his cheeks were hollow, and there was an unhealthy sallowness in their colour.
- Today rain had streaked the powder and blurred the rouge, revealing darkened lower lids, blotchy sallowness, deepened lines, and his shoulders were slumped.
- But the artist understood that the difficulty was with respect to the sallowness, and so he reassured them by saying that he only wished to give more brilliancy and expression to the eyes.
- The makeup couldn't hide the sallowness of that woman's cheeks, the hollow-ness of her eyes, or the way her neck had started to go all crepey (seeing that sort of lizardy skin on a woman's neck always made Coral shiver inside).
- Quixote of La Mancha was that a man of that sort and shape he had never yet seen; he marvelled at the length of his hair, his lofty stature, the lankness and sallowness of his countenance, his armour, his bearing and his gravity — a figure and picture such as had not been seen in those regions for many a long day.
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