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View definitions for corpselike

corpselike

adjective as in deadly

adjective as in deathlike

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To his doctors, Seward looked ghastly pale, corpselike, but he would live.

Normally a deep pink, this thumbnail-size organ was blanched a corpselike gray.

Some sufferers also experience high sensitivity to sunlight — described in some depictions of vampires — which leads to corpselike skin.

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“This corpselike look, I figured, came from sitting alone all day in a room typing, which couldn’t be good for you,” she continued.

They are knee-high and flesh-colored, like pantyhose but thicker and without the sheen, so that they give my legs a corpselike pallor.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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