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My favourite comment is that I look “calm and in charge” while my least favourite is that I look like Judge Roban from French detective series Spiral, a cadaverously miserable mop-headed man in his 70s.

From The Guardian • Mar. 31, 2019

He was cadaverously thin, his face frozen in an expression of horror, his mouth hanging open in what looked like a scream.

From Slate • Feb. 24, 2015

Anorectics are cadaverously thin, while bulimarectics generally weigh in at normal levels.

From Time Magazine Archive

The sheik was cadaverously frail, and he had been ill for two weeks when I gained a brief audience at his house.

From Time Magazine Archive

But his face, that appeared still more cadaverously pale in the glare of the orchestra lights, had about it something so imploring, so simply humble, that a sorrowful compassion repressed one's desire to smile.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians by Hubbard, Elbert