cadaverous
adjective
of or like a corpse.
cadaverously
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a word derived from
cadaverous.
Example Sentences
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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
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
Anorectics are cadaverously thin, while bulimarectics generally weigh in at normal levels.
From Time Magazine Archive
His countenance was, as usual, cadaverously wan—but, moreover, there was a species of mad hilarity in his eyes—and evidently restrained hysteria in his whole demeanor.
From Short-Stories by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
