pallid

the pallid face of the invalid.

She had a pallid look.

a pallid ray of winter sun.

make...seem pallid by comparsion

Some excerpts from a Renaissance mass are spatchcocked into Gluck’s pallid Don Juan music.

Mrs. Tremaine grew more and more worried at his pallid face and stertorous breathing.

Capsule subglobose, leathery, pallid, cinereous-luteous or cinereous-brunescent, surface usually with densely squarrulose macula or smooth, loculicidally dehiscent.

As her illness worsened her skin took on a pallid, greenish, lurid appearance. More often the term describes what shocks because of its terrible and ghastly nature: