palish

adjective

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  1. white
  2. pale
  3. sallow
  4. pallid
  5. ashen
  6. wan
  7. ashy
  8. pasty
Adjective
  • More white people claim the credit than Black people certainly.
    — Tax Notes Staff, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2023
  • The only racial group that saw a decrease in suicide rates across age cohorts was non-Hispanic white people.
    — Ellen Barry, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Feb. 2023
Definition of white
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
Definition of pale
Adjective
  • During a visit in August with two Times reporters, Mr. Perez’s skin was sallow.
    — Aimee Ortiz, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2023
  • An awkward, sallow, provincial, minor army officer, Napoleon, was irresistibly drawn to Joséphine, attracted by her proximity to the most powerful men in France.
    — Anne Higonnet, Vogue, 17 Nov. 2023
Definition of sallow
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
Definition of pallid
Adjective
  • As the trial got underway, her clients sat ashen at the defense table.
    — J. David Goodman, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2025
  • His skin, particularly his face, had an ashen appearance.
    — Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 10 Jan. 2025
Definition of ashen
Adjective
  • If the land in question has been converted from agricultural fields to golf-course acreage, the net impact of those other factors might actually be lessened, but that’s a wan exculpation.
    — David Quammen, Outside Online, 2 Mar. 2020
  • What seemed inventive and clever in the confines of a small off-Broadway theater feels utterly wan in its current incarnation.
    — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Oct. 2019
Definition of wan
Adjective
  • Its lightest shade, Biscuit, perfectly nails the ashy tone that emulates natural shadows of bone structure.
    — Conçetta Ciarlo, Vogue, 31 Jan. 2025
  • Forget the aesthetic considerations of ashy knuckles; dry, cracked skin can become itchy and unbearable, affecting your epidermis’ ability to be the body’s first barrier against the environment.
    — Cora Harrington, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2025
Definition of ashy
Adjective
  • Concerns over his physical shape had already come to the fore over the summer after paparazzi pictures revealed a pasty complexion and an overweight figure.
    — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 6 Feb. 2023
  • Not only are you supposed to use the two-finger rule to measure your SPF accurately, but many of the ones on the market also make a laundry list of promises only to leave you with a pasty white cast or a glob of grease.
    — Nerisha Penrose, ELLE, 31 Dec. 2022
Definition of pasty
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