as in pale
lacking a healthy skin color
a pallid man who looked as though he'd never seen the sun
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While Biden is no longer the nominee, a major part of Harris’ task early in the race has been rebuilding her predecessor’s pallid polling, especially in the Midwest and the Sun Belt, which are considered key for victory in November.
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Nico Lang, Them, 6 Aug. 2024
If the closet is old enough, its ties will show a whole social history of the pallid fifties turning into the ambivalent sixties turning into the florid seventies.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 6 July 2024
Personal experience is a powerful teacher, far more convincing than pallid statistics provided by scientific experts, even if the latter carry far greater evidentiary value.
—Elke U. Weber, Foreign Affairs, 13 Oct. 2020
Having positioned himself as the country’s next, truly transformative, leader, Sunak offered his party a weirdly pallid program: the dismantling of HS2, plus two long-range, complex policies, to abolish smoking and to reform the A-levels—England’s standard end-of-school exams.
—Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
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Nico Lang, Them, 6 Aug. 2024
If the closet is old enough, its ties will show a whole social history of the pallid fifties turning into the ambivalent sixties turning into the florid seventies.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 6 July 2024
Personal experience is a powerful teacher, far more convincing than pallid statistics provided by scientific experts, even if the latter carry far greater evidentiary value.
—Elke U. Weber, Foreign Affairs, 13 Oct. 2020
Having positioned himself as the country’s next, truly transformative, leader, Sunak offered his party a weirdly pallid program: the dismantling of HS2, plus two long-range, complex policies, to abolish smoking and to reform the A-levels—England’s standard end-of-school exams.
—Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
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“Pallid.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pallid. Accessed 31 Dec. 2024.
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