bloodless

veretön

kalpea

kylmä Lacking blood; ashen, anaemic.
c. 1593, (w), (w), Act III, Scene 1,http://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/views/plays/play_view.php?WorkID=titus&Scope=entire&pleasewait=1&msg=pl

Thou dost not slumber: see, thy two sons’ heads,

Thy warlike hand, thy mangled daughter here:

Thy other banish’d son, with this dear sight

Struck pale and bloodless; and thy brother, I,

Even like a stony image, cold and numb.

The face was white and thoroughly bloodless with some kind of foundation cream; it stank of powder and a gardenia-like perfume.

a bloodless conquest; a bloodless coup détat; a bloodless revolution; a bloodless victory

Those Philharmonic subscribers who considered Guest Conductor (w) too bloodless and ascetic (..) last week found his successor, (w), more to their taste.