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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References in classic literature ?
As the latter slowly turned his waxlike features toward him, the youth screamed:
It was no longer a waxlike mask, but Henrietta, girlish and pathetically at rest.
Folmer denied using marijuana, but a search of the vehicle turned up five plastic tubes, each containing a joint, along with $1,701, 125 waxlike tablets weighing 3.9 grams each and 1,200 vape pen accessories, according to the affidavit.
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.