corpselike
Adjective
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Adjective
corpselike
- Resembling a corpse.
- 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, The Whisperer in Darkness, chapter 7:
- With Akeley’s permission I lighted a small oil lamp, turned it low, and set it on a distant bookcase beside the ghostly bust of Milton; but afterward I was sorry I had done so, for it made my host’s strained, immobile face and listless hands look damnably abnormal and corpselike.
- 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, The Whisperer in Darkness, chapter 7:
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