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Recent Examples of cadaverous Plus, the kid isn’t dead either, as his flailing pale self that looks on the verge of the cadaverous pops out of the trunk Jack shoves him in. Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 1 Sep. 2024 Moreover, keeping the cadaverous Biden in the White House is a daily reminder to the American people of the feebleness and anemia of the Democratic Party, which taints Harris by association. Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 23 July 2024 Concluding that the medical students and obstetricians were causing puerperal fever in their pregnant patients by infecting them with cadaverous particles on their hands, Semmelweis instituted some harsh protocols. Sabrina Sholts, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Mar. 2024 Looking at that picture, the back of Biden's neck looks cadaverous. Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 30 Oct. 2023 Then those cadaverous mistakes are doing them in and losing games. Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 25 May 2023 Season 2 picks up 10 years after Sam Walker (Sprouse) discovered the unspeakable secrets of Drisking, Mo., when a ghost of the past arrives to drag him back for revenge — and back to the cadaverous forests that color his nightmares… and back to the gates of Borrasca. Todd Spangler, Variety, 31 Mar. 2022 An earlier study suggested that the assassin bug’s cadaverous backpack protected it from other predators and now, Jackson and Pollard have tested this theory by pitting the bugs against jumping spiders. Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 4 Oct. 2010 And despite their cadaverous appearances, vultures are actually very hygienic animals. William H. Funk, Discover Magazine, 4 Apr. 2016
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cadaverous
Adjective
  • Similarly, it was called the white plague or white death – due to anemia from the disease, with people appearing pallid or chalky – leading to near-certain death.
    Karen Dobos, The Conversation, 6 Mar. 2025
  • The Russian invasion of Ukraine won Vladimir Putin a certain admiration in countries of the global South, as well as among MAGA Americans, while Joe Biden’s appeals to democratic values seemed pallid and hypocritical.
    George Packer, The Atlantic, 20 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • In the distance, a line of tall gaunt leafless trees becomes visible.
    Ritesh Mehta, IndieWire, 17 Feb. 2025
  • Stepping out from a white van, the Israeli civilian looked gaunt and frightened.
    Mick Krever, CNN, 30 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Appearing on my phone screen as a hooded figure against a pale blue sky, Kosinski takes my call from nearby his parents’ house in the foothills near Sacramento, pacing back and forth across a field.
    Meaghan Garvey, Pitchfork, 13 Mar. 2025
  • At the top of the stairs stood a pale, dark-eyed girl about my age, presumably my noisy next-door neighbour.
    Hazlitt, Hazlitt, 12 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • There’s a slight Francis Bacon aspect to them, poetic but at the same time incontrovertibly real, depicting every distorted limb, every haggard face and emaciated body, every wound and scar.
    David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Feb. 2025
  • Nobody could have given this song so much haggard soul.
    Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 31 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Excessive systemic exposure to fluorides can also lead to skeletal fluorosis, which causes pain, stiffness and bone deformities, or dental/enamel fluorosis, which causes tooth discoloration.
    Alyssa Goldberg, USA TODAY, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Shoham said their guards told them they were being purposely starved so that, upon their release, the images of their skeletal frames and sunken faces would inflame the Israeli public and force the Netanyahu government to broker a deal.
    Matt Gutman, ABC News, 17 Mar. 2025

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“Cadaverous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cadaverous. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.

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