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- adjective Resembling a
corpse .
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Examples
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As if someone had injected adrenaline into my corpselike veins.
The Dark Side of Innocence Terri Cheney 2011
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Pears … pallid corpselike mounds with no flavor. (shudder) And then in some ponderously jiggling, translucent green or orange blob reminiscent of a bad scifi B movie.
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As if someone had injected adrenaline into my corpselike veins.
The Dark Side of Innocence Terri Cheney 2011
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"Watch," he instructs me, gently lying himself down in his bed and flattening his arms against his sides, corpselike.
Stalling 2010
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We couldn't believe how like a waxwork he looked: thin and weirdly out of date with his white coat on, talking on an old-fashioned telephone, with a corpselike pallor.
Tarnish and Style: Why I Like Venice, part 1 Heather McDougal 2008
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"I can send for a physician," said Lady Annabelle, looking dubiously at the corpselike figure on her hearth, "but I doubt he can get here under an hour; it's snowing something fierce out."
Sick Cycle Carousel 2010
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We couldn't believe how like a waxwork he looked: thin and weirdly out of date with his white coat on, talking on an old-fashioned telephone, with a corpselike pallor.
Archive 2008-05-01 Heather McDougal 2008
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She believes that the ritual trappings were off by about ten feet, and what was summoned just outside the magic circle was the famous Noonday Demon, rumors of which her father and his corpselike pals had whispered after the slaughter of miserable afternoons at the House of Ko-Reck-Shun: the savage demon of the second rate, the demon of everyday evil.
Nick Mamatas' Journal nihilistic_kid 2010
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Seeking clues, the Black Panther returns to the scene of yet another earlier murder, in a nearby cemetery and is immediately attacked by the corpselike minions of Baron Macabre.
Retro-View: Jungle Action Featuring The Black Panther #10 (Marvel Comics) Chuck Wells 2009
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The horror of the unearthly, corpselike pallor of this truffle's complexion is only offset by its fiendish deliciousness.
August 19th, 2008 curufea 2008
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