as in pallid
lacking a healthy skin color
still looking ashen from his bout with the flu
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An ashen corpse drops to the ground, and the dictator moves on with ease, ready to discuss war tactics with his men.
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Selome Hailu, Variety, 23 Feb. 2024
But before rebuilding can begin and before that fuller history can be fashioned, priceless pieces of Lahaina’s history that survived the fire must be saved from the ashen landscape.
—Tim Arango, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2023
The effect was to attune the eye to subtle contrasts—the way a gown juxtaposed shiny pewter satin with matte taffeta in a similar hue, or a pair of sequinned ombré trousers changed from charcoal at the hip to faintly ashen at the hem.
—Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2023
The economic and cultural heart of the island was reduced to an ashen landscape in the deadliest US wildfire in more than 100 years.
—Ray Sanchez, CNN, 19 Aug. 2023
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Selome Hailu, Variety, 23 Feb. 2024
But before rebuilding can begin and before that fuller history can be fashioned, priceless pieces of Lahaina’s history that survived the fire must be saved from the ashen landscape.
—Tim Arango, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2023
The effect was to attune the eye to subtle contrasts—the way a gown juxtaposed shiny pewter satin with matte taffeta in a similar hue, or a pair of sequinned ombré trousers changed from charcoal at the hip to faintly ashen at the hem.
—Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2023
The economic and cultural heart of the island was reduced to an ashen landscape in the deadliest US wildfire in more than 100 years.
—Ray Sanchez, CNN, 19 Aug. 2023
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“Ashen.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ashen. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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