Definitions

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  • adjective Somewhat sallow.

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  • adjective Slightly sallow.

Etymologies

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sallow +‎ -ish

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Examples

  • A youngish sallowish gentleman in spectacles, with a lumpy forehead, seated in a supplementary chair at a corner of the table, here caused a profound sensation by saying, in a raised voice, ‘ESKER,’ and then stopping dead.

    Our Mutual Friend 2004

  • A dark, sallowish District Superintendent of Police, faultlessly uniformed, an Englishman, trotted by on a tired horse, and, seeing from her retinue what manner of person she was, chaffed her.

    Kim 2003

  • This was a tallish, sallowish District Superintendent of Police — belt, helmet, polished spurs and all — strutting and twirling his dark moustache.

    Kim 2003

  • Or his funny, sallowish face, narrowing to the black chin-beard.

    Mary Olivier: a Life May Sinclair 1904

  • He saw what she saw: the immense coffin set up on trestles at the foot of the bed; the sheeted body packed tight in the padded white lining, the hands, curling a little, smooth and stiff, the hands of a wax figure; the firm, sallowish white face; the brown stains, like iodine, about the nostrils; the pale under lip pushed out, proudly.

    Mary Olivier: a Life May Sinclair 1904

  • A dark, sallowish District Superintendent of Police, faultlessly uniformed, an Englishman, trotted by on a tired horse, and, seeing from her retinue what manner of person she was, chaffed her.

    Kim Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • This was a tallish, sallowish District Superintendent of Police -- belt, helmet, polished spurs and all -- strutting and twirling his dark moustache.

    Kim Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • 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.

    Come Rack! Come Rope! Robert Hugh Benson 1892

  • One was of a sallowish salmon-colour, and transparent, the other was of brick-red paper with a fringe.

    The Brownies and Other Tales 1871

  • One was of a sallowish salmon-colour, and transparent, the other was of brick-red paper with a fringe.

    The Brownies and Other Tales Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1863

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