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Recent Examples of cadaverous Plus, the kid isn’t dead either, as his flailing pale self that looks on the verge of the cadaverous pops out of the trunk Jack shoves him in. Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 1 Sep. 2024 Moreover, keeping the cadaverous Biden in the White House is a daily reminder to the American people of the feebleness and anemia of the Democratic Party, which taints Harris by association. Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 23 July 2024 Concluding that the medical students and obstetricians were causing puerperal fever in their pregnant patients by infecting them with cadaverous particles on their hands, Semmelweis instituted some harsh protocols. Sabrina Sholts, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Mar. 2024 Looking at that picture, the back of Biden's neck looks cadaverous. Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 30 Oct. 2023 Then those cadaverous mistakes are doing them in and losing games. Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 25 May 2023 Season 2 picks up 10 years after Sam Walker (Sprouse) discovered the unspeakable secrets of Drisking, Mo., when a ghost of the past arrives to drag him back for revenge — and back to the cadaverous forests that color his nightmares… and back to the gates of Borrasca. Todd Spangler, Variety, 31 Mar. 2022 Or the way that Morticia, voiced by Charlize Theron in the most musical of aristocratic purrs, doesn’t just walk but glides around in her cadaverous skin-tight dress that drapes over the floor in trails that look like black silk octopus legs. Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 1 Oct. 2021 Slim to the point of cadaverous, intense, hawk-faced, almost totally bald, and sporting a bristling red mustache, Douri's devotion to Saddam was absolute and enforced with the loyalty and rigor of the fanatic. Philip Terzian, Washington Examiner, 5 Nov. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cadaverous
Adjective
  • The paintings are brushy and pallid, seemingly hinting at a dissatisfaction with commodified products such as these.
    Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 10 Feb. 2025
  • Folk-rock and psychedelia would make Peter, Paul and Mary sound pallid and precious, although nostalgia sustained them through a later reunion career.
    Jon Pareles, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Egon Schiele had his thing for gaunt girls and their undergarments.
    Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Tall and thin, bordering on gaunt, he was dressed in blue jeans, a flannel shirt, an old Army jacket, work boots, gloves and a blue wool cap.
    Alanna Nash, Variety, 4 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Gachot fills them with springtime blooms like garden tulips, cherry blossoms, poppies, daffodils, and pale pink ranunculus.
    Elise Taylor, Vogue, 18 Apr. 2025
  • The moisturizer itself is a creamy, dreamy texture with a pale pink color and subtle rose scent.
    Catherine Santino, People.com, 17 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Weinstein often looked haggard and out of it — unshaven, mouth ajar, eyes bleary.
    Phoebe Eaton, HollywoodReporter, 22 Apr. 2025
  • The scene makes Perkins crack up — Death looks tired and haggard, his job is never done (especially this week), and while the father-son may have escaped this round, their paths will cross in some unknowable way in the future.
    Chris O'Falt, IndieWire, 21 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Officers responded to a report of a deceased person and found the skeletal remains of an unidentified woman.
    Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 22 Apr. 2025
  • Investigators are trying to identify skeletal remains found this month in northern Aurora under an Interstate 225 overpass, police said.
    Lauren Penington, Denver Post, 15 Apr. 2025

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“Cadaverous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cadaverous. Accessed 27 Apr. 2025.

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