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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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.
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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
Yes, in addition to the California poppy, California redwood, grizzly bear, and garibaldi fish, the pallid bat and the golden chanterelle are now official state symbols.
—Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 3 Jan. 2024
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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
Yes, in addition to the California poppy, California redwood, grizzly bear, and garibaldi fish, the pallid bat and the golden chanterelle are now official state symbols.
—Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 3 Jan. 2024
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“Pallid.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pallid. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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