Etiolated in a sentence as an adjective

No reason to spend any more money on a boondoggle of a space truck, so now our best hope of resuming manned spaceflight rests with a couple of creepy, etiolated billionaires.

Entertainment reasons, though... I caught my wife teaching our not-yet-two-years-old daughter to use the word "etiolated" when referring to a green bean that was wilted and yellowish.

In any case you'd need longitudinal studies to properly evaluate any detrimental effects, given they are likely to be developmental in nature.> I think you have to possess a highly etiolated idea of what the human 'good' is ...Quite.

Etiolated definitions

adjective

(especially of plants) developed without chlorophyll by being deprived of light; "etiolated celery"

See also: etiolate blanched