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- adjective
comparative form ofsallow : moresallow
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Examples
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Her face was sallower, and there was a long scar, partly hidden by the hair, across her forehead and temple; but that was not the change.
Nineteen Eighty-four 2008
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Her face was sallower, and there was a long scar, partly hidden by the hair, across her forehead and temple; but that was not the change.
Nineteen Eighty-four 2008
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Oft what a sallower hue than gold's cold glitter upon her!
Poems and Fragments 2006
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Oft what a sallower hue than gold's cold glitter upon her!
Poems and Fragments 2006
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Maybe it was the light, but already I looked sallower, unhealthy.
Twilight Meyer, Stephenie 2005
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Being first cousins they had decided, or rather Holly had, to have no children; and, though a little sallower, she had kept her looks, her slimness, and the colour of her dark hair.
To Let 2004
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He was very weak; he spoke slowly, seeming to move his tongue with difficulty; he was much thinner and sallower.
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I looked intently at his face: it was sallower; there was a look of bewilderment in his eyes, some idea in the form of a question which he had not the strength to answer.
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There was a great change in his face; he was much thinner and sallower.
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Apart from the membrane there is found some wax in the honeycomb; and this a wax is much sallower in hue than the wax in the honeycomb of the bee.
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