The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cadaverous \Ca*dav"er*ous\, a. [L. cadaverosus.]
Having the appearance or color of a dead human body; pale; ghastly; as, a cadaverous look.
Of or pertaining to, or having the qualities of, a dead body. ``The scent cadaverous.'' -- Ca*dav"er*ous*ly, adv. -- Ca*dav"er*ous*ness, n.
Wiktionary
adv. In a cadaverous manner.
Usage examples of "cadaverously".
The Interactive Building Directory showed me a tall, cadaverously slender man with dark hair so thin that when he combed it from right to left over his scalp it could have been deciphered by a barcode reader.
He was a thin man, cadaverously thin and pale, a shadow of light stubble further hollowing his cheeks, but his hands on the controls were sure and competent, his whole stance that of an El Greco prelate.
But there is another type, one who goes about the world cadaverously, cheeks sunken, bones jutting, and one senses that he so disapproves of the whole of the world that he begrudges every bit of it that he takes inside himself.
The two-part TV special was directed by Tobe Hooper of Texas Chain-Saw Massacre fame, and outside of a few boners - such as making my vampire Barlow look exactly like the cadaverously inhuman night stalker in the famous German silent film Nosferatu-he did a pretty good job.