Adjective : Willful stupidity makes me absolutely livid. ,Fear turned his cheeks livid for a moment. From Dictionary.com.
The suggestion for its replacement was "lividness". From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2004-09-01] Reference
Instead, without explanation, this Puritanical pest, for which I paid a great deal of money, routinely modifies the most important word in my lexicon of lividness to "He'll". From Wordnik.com. [One For The Table: "What the He'll?"] Reference
A blackness passing to lividness crossed his face. From Wordnik.com. [The Tragic Comedians — Complete] Reference
He raises his eyes and beholds only the lividness of the clouds. From Wordnik.com. [Les Misérables] Reference
My sister's well-known and beloved features could not be concealed by convulsion or lividness. From Wordnik.com. [Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale] Reference
She saw the face pale to lividness and the lips stiffen, but except for that, the man made no movement, and for some ten seconds he did not speak. From Wordnik.com. [The Tyranny of Weakness] Reference
Coombe's still countenance was so deadly in the slow lividness, which Mademoiselle saw began to manifest itself, that she caught his sleeve with a shaking hand. From Wordnik.com. [The Head of the House of Coombe] Reference
It dropped from her powerless fingers as she finished; and she sank back in her chair with such a ghastly paleness, that it seemed absolutely like the lividness of death. From Wordnik.com. [The Midnight Queen] Reference
My acquaintance with wounds would have taught me to regard sunken muscles, lividness, and cessation of the pulse, as mere indications of a swoon, and not as tokens of death. From Wordnik.com. [Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker] Reference
The eyes, sullen and gloomy, were yet piercing, and full of a concentrated vigour that did not seem supported by the thin, feeble frame, or the green lividness of the hues, which told of anxiety and disease. From Wordnik.com. [Zanoni] Reference
On the contrary, illuminated by the light from the grating, a cellar light, it is true, livid, yet precise in its lividness, Thenardier, as the energetic popular metaphor expresses it, immediately "leaped into" Jean Valjean's eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Les Misérables] Reference
It was not the waxen hue of the convalescent, not the lifeless grey of the perfume-or snuff-maker, it was a prison pallor of a bloodless lividness unknown today, the ghastly complexion of a wretch of the Middle Ages shut up till death in a damp, airless, pitch-dark. From Wordnik.com. [Là-bas] Reference
"What do you think of him now?" they seemed to ask, and rising to her feet, she met him with a smile, ghastly perhaps with the lividness of the shadows through which she had been groping, but encouraging withal and soothing beyond measure to his anxious and harassed soul. From Wordnik.com. [Dark Hollow] Reference
But Pachauri heard it and he glared at his audience with a lividness that made the Close portrait pale in comparison. ". From Wordnik.com. [TheSpoof.com : Spoof News : Front Page] Reference
An awful lividness stole over his face. From Wordnik.com. [What's Bred in the Bone] Reference
Mr. Stevens sat musing at his desk for some time after the departure of his visitor; then, taking up one of the letters that had so strongly excited him, he read and re-read it; then crushing it in his hand, arose, stamped his feet, and exclaimed, "I'll have it! if I--" here he stopped short, and, looking round, caught a view of his face in the glass; he sank back into the chair behind him, horrified at the lividness of his countenance. From Wordnik.com. [The Garies and Their Friends] Reference
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