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Definition of pasty-faced in English: pasty-facedadjective (of a person) having an unhealthily pale complexion. Example sentencesExamples - When young men joining the Corps first arrived in camp they often described themselves as "pasty-faced, pale, and without good color at all."
- They too are often portrayed as poorly dressed, pasty-faced monomaniacs with coke-bottle glasses, who are more likely to be watching Dr Who reruns than attending the prom.
- He was pasty-faced from years out of the sunlight (he was an inveterate night person).
- I thought of the coughing, pasty-faced fellow passenger on the airplane and presumed I'd caught a touch of whatever he was spreading.
- "I just couldn't see myself going into a factory where I saw these pasty-faced fellows walking in and walking out after stamping their cards," Borgnine once said.
- Back at work, everyone looked sharp as a button and I felt pasty-faced and blurry and 20 years older.
- When he emerged, he was pasty-faced and sweating, and his long hair hung down in wet rat-tails.
- To the uninformed, the word conjures up images of university students, computer programmers and pasty-faced geeks in internet cafes.
- Skinny, pasty-faced and dressed from head to toe in black complete with woolly hat rammed down on his head, Hamlet is the epitome of a disaffected philosophy student.
- England's gifted, energetic Kenneth Branagh plays that bureaucrat to smirking, pasty-faced perfection.
Definition of pasty-faced in US English: pasty-facedadjectiveˈpāstēfāstˈpeɪstifeɪst (of a person) having an unhealthily pale complexion. Example sentencesExamples - To the uninformed, the word conjures up images of university students, computer programmers and pasty-faced geeks in internet cafes.
- They too are often portrayed as poorly dressed, pasty-faced monomaniacs with coke-bottle glasses, who are more likely to be watching Dr Who reruns than attending the prom.
- "I just couldn't see myself going into a factory where I saw these pasty-faced fellows walking in and walking out after stamping their cards," Borgnine once said.
- He was pasty-faced from years out of the sunlight (he was an inveterate night person).
- When he emerged, he was pasty-faced and sweating, and his long hair hung down in wet rat-tails.
- England's gifted, energetic Kenneth Branagh plays that bureaucrat to smirking, pasty-faced perfection.
- I thought of the coughing, pasty-faced fellow passenger on the airplane and presumed I'd caught a touch of whatever he was spreading.
- When young men joining the Corps first arrived in camp they often described themselves as "pasty-faced, pale, and without good color at all."
- Back at work, everyone looked sharp as a button and I felt pasty-faced and blurry and 20 years older.
- Skinny, pasty-faced and dressed from head to toe in black complete with woolly hat rammed down on his head, Hamlet is the epitome of a disaffected philosophy student.
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