liver spots
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of liver spots
First recorded in 1880–85
Example Sentences
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I checked my teeth in the visor mirror and was immediately horrified by thick saggy jowls, eye bags and liver spots.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
Also known as liver spots, these rounded, bloblike, flat pigmented areas collect on the face and hands and add years to a person’s appearance.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 4, 2021
He is bald as a badger, and his hands are fantastically embossed with liver spots, gnarls and wrinkles.
From Golf Digest ● Apr. 7, 2020
He stared out at a room full of gray hair, bald spots, potbellies, crow’s feet, laugh lines, liver spots, spider veins.
From The Guardian ● May 1, 2019
Her eyes were thick with cataracts and sunken into folds of transparent skin, and her whole face was dotted with broken veins and liver spots.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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