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Definition of whey-faced in English: whey-facedadjective (of a person) pale, especially as a result of ill health, shock, or fear. （尤指人因健康不佳、受惊或恐惧等引起的）脸色煞白的，大惊失色的 a whey-faced maid answered the door Example sentencesExamples - Are there any whey-faced American singer song-writers who don't hate the President?
- In the floor-to-ceiling mirror by our table, I saw how we looked: two whey-faced tourists from the far north among the permanent tans of the Southern Californians.
- Only his big brown eyes were visible as he roared off from the pits, and one of them, I could have sworn, was fixed on me, his whey-faced passenger, as he hurtled towards the first bend at 150 mph.
- His singing voice is perilously thin and his whey-faced, wire-spectacled appearance suggests a long time spent indoors.
- On TV he saw a whey-faced apparatchik, a man who earned more money in one year than Angus could hope to earn in a life-time.
- Inside a room, known as The Room, whey-faced men in drab suits sit in cubicles pushing paper about.
- So what were these whey-faced poseurs actually doing in the Eighties?
- But back in the real world it is all too easy to see why women who are whey-faced and washed-out with the practical demands of ‘having it all’ might find the idea of marrying a rich man very attractive indeed.
- Jeremy Legat, a recent drama-school graduate, is quite outstanding as a homeless, whey-faced teenager who struts around brandishing a stolen cutlass.
- He has assembled a somewhat spunkier bunch than Gilbert's parade of whey-faced pushovers.
Synonyms pale, pasty-faced, pasty, wan, drained, washed out, drawn, pallid, colourless, anaemic, bloodless, ashen, ashen-faced, ashy, grey, pinched, sickly, sallow, as white as a ghost, as white as a sheet, deathly pale, cadaverous, corpse-like, ill-looking, sickly-looking
Definition of whey-faced in US English: whey-facedadjectiveˈ(h)wāfāstˈ(h)weɪfeɪst (of a person) pale, especially as a result of ill health, shock, or fear. （尤指人因健康不佳、受惊或恐惧等引起的）脸色煞白的，大惊失色的 a whey-faced maid answered the door Example sentencesExamples - But back in the real world it is all too easy to see why women who are whey-faced and washed-out with the practical demands of ‘having it all’ might find the idea of marrying a rich man very attractive indeed.
- He has assembled a somewhat spunkier bunch than Gilbert's parade of whey-faced pushovers.
- Are there any whey-faced American singer song-writers who don't hate the President?
- In the floor-to-ceiling mirror by our table, I saw how we looked: two whey-faced tourists from the far north among the permanent tans of the Southern Californians.
- Jeremy Legat, a recent drama-school graduate, is quite outstanding as a homeless, whey-faced teenager who struts around brandishing a stolen cutlass.
- Only his big brown eyes were visible as he roared off from the pits, and one of them, I could have sworn, was fixed on me, his whey-faced passenger, as he hurtled towards the first bend at 150 mph.
- On TV he saw a whey-faced apparatchik, a man who earned more money in one year than Angus could hope to earn in a life-time.
- Inside a room, known as The Room, whey-faced men in drab suits sit in cubicles pushing paper about.
- So what were these whey-faced poseurs actually doing in the Eighties?
- His singing voice is perilously thin and his whey-faced, wire-spectacled appearance suggests a long time spent indoors.
Synonyms pale, pasty-faced, pasty, wan, drained, washed out, drawn, pallid, colourless, anaemic, bloodless, ashen, ashen-faced, ashy, grey, pinched, sickly, sallow, as white as a ghost, as white as a sheet, deathly pale, cadaverous, corpse-like, ill-looking, sickly-looking
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