whey-faced

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for whey-faced
Adjective
  • Costa Rican white-faced capuchins were more likely to survive El Niño if their feces exhibited higher levels of stress hormones during preceding droughts.
    Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 3 Mar. 2025
  • Housed in five separate cages, the deceased monkeys included the De Brazza species as well as one common squirrel monkey, cotton-top tamarins and white-faced sakis.
    Reuters, CNN, 21 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • With two employees and a vault filled with gold nuggets and untanned animal pelts, the bank would soon become an essential part of the state’s economic engine; a year later construction on the Alaska Railroad completed and people turned to First National for banking security.
    Anchorage Daily News, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Jan. 2022
  • Then the fingers at the ends of those long, thin, untanned arms would attack the keys with the furiously proficient ardor of a Rubinstein or a Rubirosa.
    Richard Corliss, Time, 28 Oct. 2022
Adjective
  • If a person is anemic or has lost a great deal of blood, the lips become pale.
    Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Apr. 2025
  • But the Tribe has only itself to blame for a conservative investment strategy that provided anemic growth, Wells Fargo lawyers argued in court Monday.
    Rafael Olmeda, Sun Sentinel, 24 Mar. 2025
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“Whey-faced.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/whey-faced. Accessed 29 Apr. 2025.

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