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pasty-faced

[ pey-stee-feyst ]

adjective

  1. having a pale, unhealthy, sallow complexion:

    an awkward, pasty-faced youth.



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51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins

Origin of pasty-faced1

First recorded in 1600–10
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Example Sentences

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He’s the tall pasty-faced, middle-aged glammy Goth with the loud clothing and a habit of bothering bakers at crucial moments.

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Two pasty-faced girls walked out of Velia and Delia’s room.

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Slant Magazine described Pattinson in “Twilight†as a “blank, pasty-faced, fire-haired Gap modelâ€; The Austin Chronicle opined that his “cheekbones keep getting in the way of the storyâ€; Slate semi-praised his performance at the expense of Catherine Hardwicke’s filmmaking, writing that Pattinson “doesn’t seem to have been given much direction beyond ‘melt the camera with your eyes.’â€

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A poet who lived among sharp implements would have choked to death on a title as aspiring and pasty-faced as “Continuous Creation.â€

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“We’re waiting. We don’t know why,†said Arsen Mosherghyan, a pasty-faced 18-year-old recruit.

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