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  • adjective of dark grey

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Examples

  • I sat toward the front, in an aisle seat, next to Jamie Dee—pale, skinny-limbed, freckled, her black hair pulled back into a tight pony-tail, dressed in black denim and a faded blackish-gray AC/DC t-shirt.

    Molecules Joe Deir 2011

  • The obverse (front) has lilac-gray toning and the reverse (back) has much blackish-gray color along with considerable brownish-russet and some lilac tones.

    The Greatest World Coin Auction: The Millennia Collection (Part 1)- an Overview & Famous Pieces : Coin Collecting News 2008

  • How may I help you? he asked, his wavy blackish-gray hair shining under the bright halogen lights.

    Super Woman’s Child J. L. Woodson 2006

  • How may I help you? he asked, his wavy blackish-gray hair shining under the bright halogen lights.

    Super Woman’s Child J. L. Woodson 2006

  • It consisted of a vast stratification of blackish-gray slate, unvaried in its whole height by a single change of shade.

    A Pair of Blue Eyes 2006

  • Mr. Schryhart kicked out his well-rounded legs, adjusted his soft-roll collar, and smoothed his short, crisp, wiry, now blackish-gray mustache.

    The Titan 2004

  • Within minutes they had exposed a solid-looking corner of a blackish-gray object.

    SERPENT CLIVE CUSSLER 2000

  • Within minutes they had exposed a solid-looking corner of a blackish-gray object.

    SERPENT CLIVE CUSSLER 2000

  • In the above mentioned exceptional cases there is formed a small quantity of peroxide which adheres to the anode as a blackish-gray deposit.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 441, June 14, 1884. Various

  • Mr. Schryhart kicked out his well-rounded legs, adjusted his soft-roll collar, and smoothed his short, crisp, wiry, now blackish-gray mustache.

    The Titan Theodore Dreiser 1908

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