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Deathly

adjective

Having the physical appearance of death. Synonym: deathlike.

Causing or capable of causing death. Synonyms: deadly, mortal. "A deadly enemy" , "Mortal combat" , "A mortal illness"

adverb

To a degree resembling death.

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"Deathly" Quotes from Famous Books

... deathly pale as Antoinette's words fell upon her ear. Had she heard aright, or were her ears playing her a ...

— Jolly Sally Pendleton - The Wife Who Was Not a Wife • Laura Jean Libbey

... what must fade can bear to fade— Was born to meet the ill: Creep on, old Winter, deathly shade! We sorrow, ...

— The Poetical Works of George MacDonald in Two Volumes, Volume I • George MacDonald

... each other as he passed out, and there was horror in the eyes of both. Aline's pallor was deathly almost, and standing there now she wrung her hands ...

— Scaramouche - A Romance of the French Revolution • Rafael Sabatini

... shell. Hamilton ran to him, picked him up, and taking him by the arm, marched him to the rear, while shells were bursting all around us. I saw them as they walked by,—Giberson white as a sheet, staggering, and evidently deathly sick, but the chaplain clung to him, kept him on his feet, and ultimately turned him over to ...

— The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865 • Leander Stillwell

... He looked up with more assurance, and saw Piers, still with that deathly look on his face, leaning ...

— The Bars of Iron • Ethel May Dell

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