cadaverous
adjective
of or like a corpse.
cadaverousness
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a word derived from
cadaverous.
Example Sentences
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Huge-boned, tall, gaunt to cadaverousness, his face a dirty death’s head, he was as repellent a nightmare of old age as ever Doré imagined.
From The Red One by Jack London
He was a man whose figure promised cadaverousness, but who had an excessively red face, though shaped like a horse’s.
From The Uncommercial Traveller by Charles Dickens
The old heroic stamina of our ancestors, that craved the bitter but nourishing home-brewed, has died out, and in its place there is a sickly cadaverousness that must be pampered and cosseted.
From Birds and Poets : with Other Papers by John Burroughs
Without suggesting cadaverousness, though high-boned and prominent, the cheeks fell away and met in a mouth, thin-lipped and softly strong.
From The God of His Fathers: Tales of the Klondyke by Jack London
He was a man whose figure promised cadaverousness, but who had an excessively red face, though shaped like a horse's.
From A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time by Ernest Rhys
