sallow
adjective
of a sickly, yellowish or lightish brown color.
sallowish
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a word derived from
sallow.
Example Sentences
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Or his funny, sallowish face, narrowing to the black chin-beard.
From Mary Olivier: a Life by May Sinclair
One was of a sallowish salmon-colour, and transparent, the other was of brick-red paper with a fringe.
From The Brownies and Other Tales by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing
This was a tallish, sallowish District Superintendent of Police—belt, helmet, polished spurs and all—strutting and twirling his dark moustache.
From Kim by Rudyard Kipling
This was a tallish, sallowish District Superintendent of Police,—belt, helmet, polished spurs and all,—strutting and twirling his dark moustache.
From Kim by Rudyard Kipling
He was still some distance off; but it was possible to make out that he was sallowish in complexion, wore a trimmed beard, and had something of a long throat.
From Come Rack! Come Rope! by Robert Hugh Benson
