cadaverous

Etymology

From Latin cadāverōsus; compare Middle English cadaverous (“gangrenous, mortified”).

adj

1. Corpselike; hinting of death; imitating a cadaver.
   Some approached pure blanching; some had a bluish pallor; some worn by the older characters (which had possibly lain by folded for many a year) inclined to a cadaverous tint, and to a Georgian style. 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 17
   1917 rev. 1925 Ezra Pound, "Canto I" Dark blood flowed in the fosse, Souls out of Erebus, cadaverous dead ...
   By some paradoxical evolution rancour and intolerance have been established in the vanguard of primitive Christianity. Mrs. Spoker, in common with many of the stricter disciples of righteousness, was as inclement in demeanour as she was cadaverous in aspect. 1922, Ben Travers, chapter 4, in A Cuckoo in the Nest