as in pale
lacking a healthy skin color
a pallid man who looked as though he'd never seen the sun
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Recent Examples of pallid
And try to summon, from our pallid, hazy situation, vistas of the sort that draw so sweet and pure a gaze.
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David Searcy, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
The first payroll report after the end of the government shutdown painted a pallid picture of the jobs market.
—Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 25 Nov. 2025
County plans acknowledged potential harm to pallid bats native to the area and called for installing bat boxes to offer them an alternative habitat.
—Hannah Elsmore, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Nov. 2025
Yet senior test kitchen editor Jesse Szewczyk recently took one of those pallid lumps and coaxed utter brilliance from it.
—Chris Morocco, Bon Appetit Magazine, 14 Aug. 2025
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David Searcy, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
The first payroll report after the end of the government shutdown painted a pallid picture of the jobs market.
—Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 25 Nov. 2025
County plans acknowledged potential harm to pallid bats native to the area and called for installing bat boxes to offer them an alternative habitat.
—Hannah Elsmore, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Nov. 2025
Yet senior test kitchen editor Jesse Szewczyk recently took one of those pallid lumps and coaxed utter brilliance from it.
—Chris Morocco, Bon Appetit Magazine, 14 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pallid
pale
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The pale tortilla was dappled with shades of brown, toasty and tawny—simplicity, done superlatively.—
Helen Rosner,
New Yorker,
3 May 2026
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Each Trader Joe’s Potted Multi-Bloom Hydrangea comes with several fluffy blooms, ranging in color from pale blue to pink or purple.—
Sophia Beams,
Better Homes & Gardens,
2 May 2026
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“Pallid.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pallid. Accessed 8 May. 2026.
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