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
