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/kɐdˈævəɹəs/
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ADJECTIVE
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very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold
a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys
kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration
small pinched faces
eyes were haggard and cavernous -
of or relating to a cadaver or corpse
we had long anticipated his cadaverous end
How To Use cadaverous In A Sentence
- You understand why he looked cadaverous long before April 3, 2000, when an assassin cut him down.
- Obama was always far more popular than the cadaverous Mr. Nelson. Joseph A. Palermo: Citizens United -- Game Changer
- When she looked at him again, her face was cadaverous.
- Here, when you enter his gloomy penetralia, and invoke his services, the sable-clad and cadaverous- featured shopman asks you, in a sepulchral voice-we are not writing romance, but simple fact - whether you are to be suited for inextinguishable sorrow, or for mere passing grief; and if you are at all in doubt upon the subject, he can solve the problem for you, if you lend him your confidence for the occasion. . . Archive 2008-06-01
- They were Asian men, the officers saw, diminutive and cadaverously thin. ‘The Snakehead’
- He'd been trying to quit for years, did so on and off, and his face would lose some of that cadaverous look for a few months. DOLL'S EYES
- Later, they would fall out over Louisa's desire to wear rouge in order to attenuate the "cadaverous" pallor of her complexion, which offended her husband's puritan sensibilities. The Harvard Crimson | All Articles
- We fine cadaverous fellows do not share your enthusiasm for the sanctity of life, for obvious reasons.
- He'd been trying to quit for years, did so on and off, and his face would lose some of that cadaverous look for a few months. DOLL'S EYES
- Its cadaverous Borg villains are depersonalized members of a cybernetically unified mind. World Wide Mind