palish

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Adjective
  • Attendees have been asked to wear red, white or blue to the service.
    Alexandra Hutzler, ABC News, 20 Sep. 2025
  • Five of them will be white balls with numbers from 1 to 70.
    Fernando Cervantes Jr, USA Today, 20 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • With pale, irregular surfaces dotted with black bits of char, the homely slabs aren’t much to look at, but the first bite packs a big smoky punch that only grows with each subsequent chew.
    Robert F. Moss, Southern Living, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Create a neutral fall display by grouping elegant white and pale-orange pumpkins.
    Maria Sabella, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • During a visit in August with two Times reporters, Mr. Perez’s skin was sallow.
    Aimee Ortiz, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2023
  • An awkward, sallow, provincial, minor army officer, Napoleon, was irresistibly drawn to Joséphine, attracted by her proximity to the most powerful men in France.
    Anne Higonnet, Vogue, 17 Nov. 2023
Adjective
  • Morfydd Clark, pallid at first, has some emotive scenes at the wedding when Ophelia rails at Hamlet for turning away from her.
    Caryn James, HollywoodReporter, 30 Aug. 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
Adjective
  • Given shorter travel times, a greater number of people would be able to experience its otherworldly ashen plains.
    Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 10 Aug. 2025
  • In his post-game meeting with reporters, New York coach Tom Thibodeau looked ashen and was at loss for explaining what unfolded.
    Sean Gregory, Time, 22 May 2025
Adjective
  • If the land in question has been converted from agricultural fields to golf-course acreage, the net impact of those other factors might actually be lessened, but that’s a wan exculpation.
    David Quammen, Outside Online, 2 Mar. 2020
  • The industrial lagers were flavorless, wan and dilute; craft beer, by contrast, would be rich, complex and delicious.
    Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com, 31 Jan. 2020
Adjective
  • Ash Wednesday this year – one of the most somber celebrations in the Catholic calendar, marking the beginning of Lent – saw a flurry of videos posted by Gen Z showing off their ashy foreheads.
    Joseph Ataman, CNN Money, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Graff tugs the reader from the earliest experiments in radiation to the young pilots who made an ashy hole of Nagasaki.
    Book Marks September 11, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Boat shoes, collared shirt, sunburn, tan around sunglasses, pasty, red hair.
    Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Myers, the talent behind Wednesday’s roommate, Enid Sinclair, in the show, conversely, kept a pasty, pale visage, drawing attention to her deep plum lipstick.
    Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 6 Aug. 2025
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“Palish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/palish. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.

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