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  • adjective superlative form of yellow: most yellow.

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Examples

  • Aga toast, the yellowest egg, little beaded covers on jugs of milk and juice.

    B&B review: Ivydene House 2011

  • Some bolder ones would resurface for a second glimpse, checking out dinner possibilities, and of course, these gourmands were the biggest, with the beadiest eyes and the yellowest teeth.

    Richard Bangs: Full of Croc: Why Not to Mess Around in Small Boats in Africa Richard Bangs 2010

  • As I pedal, smiling Colombians laugh at the tall gringo in the biggest, yellowest helmet they've ever seen, panting and purple-faced as the altitude takes its toll: Bogotá is the world's third-highest capital city, at 2,640m above sea level.

    Bogotá's Ciclovia could teach Boris Johnson how to run a car-free capital 2010

  • Some bolder ones would resurface for a second glimpse, checking out dinner possibilities, and of course, these gourmands were the biggest, with the beadiest eyes and the yellowest teeth.

    Richard Bangs: Full of Croc: Why Not to Mess Around in Small Boats in Africa Richard Bangs 2010

  • Beets consumed at dinner will, come morning, stock a toilet bowl with crimson fish, their hue attesting to beet's chromatic immunity to the powerful digestive acids and thoroughgoing microbes that can turn the reddest pimento, the orangest carrot, the yellowest squash into a single disgusting shade of brown.

    La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth 2010

  • Some bolder ones would resurface for a second glimpse, checking out dinner possibilities, and of course, these gourmands were the biggest, with the beadiest eyes and the yellowest teeth.

    Richard Bangs: Full of Croc: Why Not to Mess Around in Small Boats in Africa Richard Bangs 2010

  • That's one reason why you can make a decent argument that, taken on its own terms, the News of the World - the yellowest of our papers - is also the best paper in Britain.

    The Colour of Newsprint 2009

  • We'll be a glorious flower meadow and I wll be the biggest and yellowest of all and the other flowers wll be small and pretty and happy.

    Archive 2009-04-01 Eric Dickens 2009

  • The excellent Roy Greenslade has been running a daily Guardian summary of the plot this week, rejoicing that a portrait of the red-top press in its yellowest heyday is back now to educate a new generation.

    Books 2009

  • That's one reason why you can make a decent argument that, taken on its own terms, the News of the World - the yellowest of our papers - is also the best paper in Britain.

    John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009

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