pasty complexion
Frequency: 4.52.8 per million words
describes an unhealthily pale and soft-looking skin
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- After weeks of illness, he emerged from his room with a pasty complexion.
- After months of illness, he was left with a pasty complexion.
- The lack of sunlight in the office gave all the workers a similarly pasty complexion.
- The programmer's pasty complexion suggested he rarely left his desk.
- She was so frightened by the sudden noise that her face took on a pasty complexion.
- She was concerned by his pasty complexion and cold sweat.
- His unhealthy diet of processed foods was likely the cause of his pasty complexion.
- A pasty complexion is often a sign of vitamin deficiency.
- The doctor was concerned by the patient's listlessness and pasty complexion.
- He stepped out of the basement with a startled look and a pasty complexion.
- Even in the summer, the reclusive author had a pasty complexion from staying indoors.
- The harsh fluorescent lights made her pasty complexion look even worse.
- Beneath the heavy stage makeup, the tired actor had a pasty complexion.
- Years in the city had turned his healthy glow into a pasty complexion.
- You should get some fresh air; that pasty complexion doesn't suit you.
- He had the pasty complexion of someone who survives on junk food.
- Chronic stress and sleep deprivation had given him a perpetually pasty complexion.
- Despite his pasty complexion, he insisted he was perfectly healthy.
- The old portrait showed a man with dark, sunken eyes and a pasty complexion.
- The doctor noted the patient's pasty complexion during the examination.