Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- With pallidity; palely; wanly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a pallid manner.
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- adverb In a
pallid manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a manner lacking interest or vitality
Etymologies
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Examples
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And another poll showed unfavorables towards you that should put paid to any presidential ambitions you might harbor -- and here I reiterate my certainty that you will find the note-perfect, "I'm too pure for this" rationale for NOT running, and instead resuming your role as right-wing America's pallidly-pigmented equivalent of Oprah.
Kara Vallow: Happy Palintine's Day! A Love Letter From Me to Sarah Kara Vallow 2010
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Their shrill spat ventilates this pallidly perfect room: reality takes over when the expensive lies of the beauty industry break down.
The big picture: models in Charles James gowns, New York, 1948 2010
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And another poll showed unfavorables towards you that should put paid to any presidential ambitions you might harbor -- and here I reiterate my certainty that you will find the note-perfect, "I'm too pure for this" rationale for NOT running, and instead resuming your role as right-wing America's pallidly-pigmented equivalent of Oprah.
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And another poll showed unfavorables towards you that should put paid to any presidential ambitions you might harbor -- and here I reiterate my certainty that you will find the note-perfect, "I'm too pure for this" rationale for NOT running, and instead resuming your role as right-wing America's pallidly-pigmented equivalent of Oprah.
Kara Vallow: Happy Palintine's Day! A Love Letter From Me to Sarah 2010
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Set to a piano score by Scarlatti (which I found Scar-lousy), it was one of those "Sunday Afternoon at the Ballet" lyrical, courtly pastorals that snowflakes around and melts in your mind as you're watching, pallidly derivative of Robbins and Paul Taylor and indistinguishable from so many other pretty-pretty romantic scamperings whisked up over the years.
Shrimp Balls and Booty Calls: The ABT Gala: James Wolcott Wolcott, James, 1952- 2009
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Skylights in the ceiling illuminated the room, in which light the fire-gems winked pallidly.
The Conquering Sword of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2005
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Skylights in the ceiling illuminated the room, in which light the fire-gems winked pallidly.
The Conquering Sword Of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2005
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Before me, glimmering pallidly, bristled the mount of the Cones.
The Metal Monster 2004
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Up from it thrust a mountainous forest of the pallidly radiant cones; bristling; prodigious.
The Metal Monster 2004
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Lights shone pallidly in the spring afternoon sunshine.
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