Sentence:  The covers slid down his skinny neck so I saw his head , fuzzed like a dandelion gone to seed , but his face was turned to the wall - there was the <WSD>pale</WSD> shadow of his nose on the plaster - and I thought , Well you do n't look much like a pig-drunk bully now . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble