sallow face/skin/complexion• He had a bony, tortured face, angry, slanting peacock-blue eyes, bronze curls and a sallow complexion.• He liked the look of the man - about Jackson's own build, a lean, slightly sallow face.• He was a man in his late twenties, dark and thin with a sallow complexion.• The woman was slightly fat, with loose sallow skin and a slow and uneven gait.• He has lost weight and there is a new darkening in the sallow skin beneath his eyes.• I stared up into the kind-eyed, sallow face of Catherine of Aragon.