[
UK
/sˈæləʊ/
]
NOUN
- any of several Old World shrubby broad-leaved willows having large catkins; some are important sources for tanbark and charcoal
ADJECTIVE
- unhealthy looking
VERB
-
cause to become sallow
The illness has sallowed her face
How To Use sallow In A Sentence
- Ireland is younger, more sallow, better educated, more vibrant and more in need of joined-up thinking than ever before.
- Drogba has a goal - very similar to Terry's, but from a free-kick on the other side - disallowed for offside.
- Her sallow skin was drawn tightly across the bones of her face.
- Yet another Italian goal was wrongly disallowed for offside. Calcio: A History of Italian Football
- As institutionalized censorship defines real experience by what it disallows, we assume the unseeable must be more real that our own perceptions, holding secret truths known only to higher powers.
- The imam still bore the mark of that experience in his gaunt frame and sallow, jaundiced complexion.
- A sallow teenager in a cheap cocktail dress wearing too much makeup appears, looking terminally bored.
- Despite the obvious advantages of a unified perspective for collective political action, the differences among women disallow such a perspective.
- The shaken man described one of the attackers as thin, in his early 20s, with long thin face and a Mexican-style moustache and sallow complexion.
- The chairman disallowed the veracity of his report.