sallow
She noticed the sallowness of their complexions.
He had no dark circles around his eyes and no sallowness.
a malaria victim's sallowness

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

The skin, & skin colour
anti-wrinkle
ashy
basal cell
blush
complexion
corium
flushed
freckle-faced
pasty-faced
peaches and cream
percutaneous
perionychium
permatan
pigmented
rubicund
strawberry mark
subcutaneous
wanly
webbing
wheat complexion

Examples of sallowness

sallowness
She held a hand-screen betwixt her face and the fire, but the flush which touched its usual sallowness was not caused by heat.
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Her eyebrows and eyelids were darkly penciled, and powder essayed to mask wrinkles and sallowness of complexion.
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He was deeply moved, but his face showed his emotion only by a slight increase of sallowness.
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The action of the liver becoming deranged, its eliminative office is imperfectly discharged, and thus sallowness of the face and a bilious-tinged conjunctiva are produced.
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His dark eyes were lit with passion; a pale shade seemed to have crept in upon the sallowness of his cheeks.
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The sallowness of her complexion was all gone, and on either cheek there burned a round, bright spot.
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Here he rectified the sallowness of his complexion, which was due, not to outraged nature, but to the arts of make-up.
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He wore no beard, and was dressed in brown jeans, which imparted a certain sallowness to his dark complexion.
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The sallowness that already had entered his face since his imprisonment became livid, and the red light flared.
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The sallowness of his complexion was emphasized by his almost jet black hair and dark eyes.
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The suit selected had been of an ugly blue which brought out all the sallowness of the poor child's complexion.
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It feeds and nourishes the skin, preventing and banishing wrinkles, crow's-feet, and sallowness.
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The sallowness had left his face and a slight color appeared in his cheeks.
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It was rather thin, his cheeks were hollow, and there was an unhealthy sallowness in their color.
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