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- adjective
comparative form ofgrey : moregrey
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Examples
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Shower water is more plentiful (and greyer) than sink water.
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She has lost weight and is looking older and greyer.
Palin to step down as governor, not seeking re-election 2009
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Tainted love is tinted love, a greyer pink love, edges purple from necrosis, halitosis, the lack of osmosis, a hypoxia of the heart hardened boundaries kind of love.
Tainted Love Linda Simoni-Wastila 2011
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She clicked on another subscreen and a rougher, greyer, wide-angled image emerged of a girl—the same girl, if you looked hard enough—walking up the road towards the camera, swinging her handbag by its long straps.
The Priest Gerard O’Donovan 2011
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He is an elder statesman now, the wacky perm a distant memory, his hair not just grey but greyer than any grey I have ever seen.
Keegle is noble but good taste takes a tumbril | Martin Kelner 2011
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From behind the dock's bulletproof glass, well groomed and no balder, greyer or paunchier than most 62-year-olds, he has mostly gazed on empty press benches and a deserted public section.
Carlos the Jackal plays to the gallery, but this time his courtroom audience has not turned up 2011
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The wacky perm of Kevin Keegan, introduced as Kevin Keegle on ESPN, has been replaced by hair greyer than any ever seen.
Keegle is noble but good taste takes a tumbril | Martin Kelner 2011
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All that changes in Samir is that his beard grows a little greyer as the years drone on.
Cori Crider: My Guantanamo Client Is Not Your Yemeni Bogeyman 2010
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We're both thinner, older, greyer, slower, but you are still you and I am The Doctor.
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But beneath the breezy optimism there is a much greyer note.
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