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  • adjective of black tinged with grey

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Examples

  • Gray and grayish-black, too, are nail-color trends this season, Ms. Balbier notes.

    Nail Colors for the Changing Season Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan 2011

  • By the time the guards arrived the entire tier had turned grayish-black with thick soot floating in the air covering the walls and everything else in the cell.

    Blue Rage, Black Redemption Stanley Tookie Williams 2007

  • By the time the guards arrived the entire tier had turned grayish-black with thick soot floating in the air covering the walls and everything else in the cell.

    Blue Rage, Black Redemption Stanley Tookie Williams 2007

  • By the time the guards arrived the entire tier had turned grayish-black with thick soot floating in the air covering the walls and everything else in the cell.

    Blue Rage, Black Redemption Stanley Tookie Williams 2007

  • By the time the guards arrived the entire tier had turned grayish-black with thick soot floating in the air covering the walls and everything else in the cell.

    Blue Rage, Black Redemption Stanley Tookie Williams 2007

  • The tents were arranged with unmistakably military precision, color-coded from practical shades of green to drab grayish-black, then, on the outside the bright clashing reds, oranges, and purples that Sulu recognized as the colors of the great Klingon fighting houses.

    The Janus Gate: Future Imperfect L. A. Graf 2002

  • The tents were arranged with unmistakably military precision, color-coded from practical shades of green to drab grayish-black, then, on the outside the bright clashing reds, oranges, and purples that Sulu recognized as the colors of the great Klingon fighting houses.

    The Janus Gate: Future Imperfect L. A. Graf 2002

  • The tents were arranged with unmistakably military precision, color-coded from practical shades of green to drab grayish-black, then, on the outside the bright clashing reds, oranges, and purples that Sulu recognized as the colors of the great Klingon fighting houses.

    The Janus Gate: Future Imperfect L. A. Graf 2002

  • It was of the same kind of stone that covered the roof of the Grotto of the Apocalypse, the color and contours of a thundercloud, grayish-black and bulbous.

    The Summer of My Greek Tavérna Tom Stone 2002

  • As Mun Bun had first announced, he looked like a snowman, only his face was grayish-black.

    Six Little Bunkers at Mammy June's Laura Lee Hope

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