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n. looking tired and pale
Usage examples of "pinched look".
In the hospitals during the war she had seen too many faces wearing this pinched look not to know what it inevitably presaged.
Making no pretense of adding the currency to the station receipts, he tucked the money in his wallet with a pinched look of spiteful satisfaction.
The Virgin was young with the stern, pinched look of the moral autocrat.
Clothes unsoiled, face clean of dirt and tears, no pinched look (no more than usual), and she smiled swiftly, and bent her head back over the keyboard.
Her face had gone dead-white and had a pinched look, and her manner was distracted.
Judging by the pinched look around Caelerus' nostrils and mouth, Charlie's appearance and smell clearly disgusted him.
Procell's fingers trembled faintly on the can of pop, but his mouth had lost its gray, pinched look.
Then she turned to greet M'rand and saw the pinched look on his face.