deathsome

From death +‎ -some.

deathsome (comparative more deathsome, superlative most deathsome)

1. Having the characteristic of death; alluding to or suggesting death
   • 1994, Poppy Z. Brite, Drawing Blood:

     He was just Calvin's type, Terry knew: skinny bones and deathsome pallor, but spiced up with a smartass twist to his lips.

   • 2007, Broos Campbell, The War of Knives:

     The Monongahela Valley in western Pennsylvania was a wild and deathsome place when I entered the world in 1782.

   • 2016, Jack Kerouac, Scattered Poems:

     But I'm lying as I be / Under a deathsome tree

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