waxlike


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Adj. 1. waxlike - having the paleness of wax; "the poor face with the same awful waxen pallor"- Bram Stoker; "the soldier turned his waxlike features toward him"; "a thin face with a waxy paleness"
colorless, colourless - weak in color; not colorful
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As the latter slowly turned his waxlike features toward him, the youth screamed:
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It was no longer a waxlike mask, but Henrietta, girlish and pathetically at rest.
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Like a climax scene from an old, grainy, horror film, the stubby, waxlike "fingers" slowly penetrate the duff on the forest floor, as if someone, or something was buried here, but not quite deeply enough.
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