pasty-faced

[ pey-stee-feyst ]

adjective

1. having a pale, unhealthy, sallow complexion:

   an awkward, pasty-faced youth.

Word History and Origins

Origin of pasty-faced¹

First recorded in 1600–10

Example Sentences

No pasty-faced legal adventurer is going to cause bad blood between the Warners and the Marxes.

From The Daily Beast

To the new-comer they looked pasty-faced, spiritless beings.

From Project Gutenberg

Some of them were dragging along tired, over-dressed, pasty-faced children.

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A pasty-faced bald man at a table near theirs rose with a broad grin on his face and went forward to collect.

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There used to be a pasty-faced boy in school that'd wail that out, and set all the girls to bawling.

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Miss Gale proceeded to insist that boys are not pasty-faced without a cause, and it is to be sought lower down.

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