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Definition

abnormally pale (lacking healthy skin color); or anything that lacks energy or liveliness

She looked weak and her face was pallid.

pallid = abnormally pale (lacking healthy skin color)

It was a pallid performance.

pallid = lacking energy

And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting
On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door;
Edgar Allan Poe -- The Raven

pallid = pale and/or lacking liveliness

She looked bloated, like a body long submerged in motionless water, and of that pallid hue.
William Faulkner -- A Rose for Emily

pallid = abnormally pale (lacking healthy skin color)

On either side stand people, dark, calling out the numbers of the brigades, the battalions. And at each call a little group separates itself off, a small handful of dirty, pallid soldiers, a dreadfully small handful, and a dreadfully small remnant.
Erich Maria Remarque -- All Quiet on the Western Front

pallid = lacking healthy skin color

The flush passed from his brow, and gave way to the pallid hue of death.
Sir Walter Scott -- Ivanhoe
The pallid prominent personage almost died of fright.
Nikolai Gogol -- The Overcoat
Sweat-drops stood out on his pallid face.
Zane Grey -- The Man of the Forest
Anne could not say the dreadful word; she turned sick and pallid.
Lucy Maud Montgomery -- Anne Of Green Gables
The woman bowed her face and imprinted her lips long and fervently on the pallid forehead of her brother.
James Fenimore Cooper -- The Prairie
I don't expect her to answer, but to my surprise, she unbuttons her uniform jacket and pulls up the shirt beneath to reveal a stretch of pallid skin.
Sabaa Tahir -- An Ember in the Ashes
No; she looked at him, a huddle under blankets, his face a pallid glimmer in the growing dawn.
Doris Lessing -- The Grass is Singing
Both had risen, and were gazing at one another with pallid faces.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Idiot
"No ... !" she whispered, her pallid face growing paler.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Ultimatum
One thing alone, however, threw a shade over the pallid brow of Felton.
Alexandre Dumas -- The Three Musketeers
She had never in her life looked so much like the lily her name connoted as she did in that pallid morning light.
Thomas Hardy -- Jude the Obscure
The only people in the waiting room besides Doctor Nolan and me were a pallid man in a shabby maroon bathrobe and his accompanying nurse.
Sylvia Plath -- The Bell Jar
I could visualize myself, pallid and thin.
Roger Zelazny -- Nine Princes in Amber
Her fingers, cuddling it, were plump and pallid.
Ray Bradbury -- The Martian Chronicles
Lily had not been long in this pallid world without discovering that Mrs. Hatch was its most substantial figure.
Edith Wharton -- The House of Mirth

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