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[ pey-stee-feyst ] / ˈpeɪ stiˈfeɪst /
adjectivehaving a pale, unhealthy, sallow complexion: an awkward, pasty-faced youth. Origin of pasty-facedFirst recorded in 1600–10 Words nearby pasty-facedpasturable, pasturage, pasture, pasture rose, pasty, pasty-faced, PA system, pat, pataca, pat-a-cake, patagium Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for pasty-facedNo pasty-faced legal adventurer is going to cause bad blood between the Warners and the Marxes. Harvey Weinstein’s Battle With Warner Bros. Over ‘The Butler’: There's History|Marlow Stern|July 12, 2013|DAILY BEAST The speaker was a pasty-faced, greasy, fat hybrid, about twenty-eight years old. With the Zionists in Gallipoli|John Henry Patterson There used to be a pasty-faced boy in school that'd wail that out, and set all the girls to bawling. Si Klegg, Book 6 (of 6)|John McElroy Surely you would not like to look like a washed-out, pasty-faced, sickly little girl? The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 357, October 30, 1886|Various
The dark-eyed, pasty-faced Gabriel shook in his uplifted arms like a poor played-out doll of rags. The Wolf Cub|Patrick Casey He's that pasty-faced, sharp-nosed young fellow who's been helping the janitor recently. The House of Torchy|Sewell Ford
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