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  • adjective of black tinged with grey

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Examples

  • They were greyish-black, slimy, and exceedingly large -- not quite as scary as I had remembered them without all the blood but still pretty weird.

    Cathy Erway: Reason for Not Eating Out #49: Getting Over Your Food Fears Cathy Erway 2012

  • They were greyish-black, slimy, and exceedingly large -- not quite as scary as I had remembered them without all the blood but still pretty weird.

    Cathy Erway: Reason for Not Eating Out #49: Getting Over Your Food Fears Cathy Erway 2012

  • They cleansed his room, brought fresh linen from home, and took from off his limbs the sheets, greyish-black with dirt.

    DAN CULLEN, DOCKER 2010

  • And he was reading through a transcript we had been given of Chais statement to the police when wisps of greyish-black smoke began seeping from the air grille at the top of the room.

    A Question of Honour Lord Michael Levy 2008

  • My jeans are luckily greyish-black, so most dust is invisible, but my black fleece turned grey, and my hands and face needed cleaning.

    Rumors. magnio 2005

  • An elderly Cossack with a broad greyish-black beard was lying in his shirt, girdled with a black strap, close to the river and gazing lazily at the waves of the Terek as they monotonously foamed and swirled.

    The Cossacks 2003

  • I decided to wear my black skirt, this new blue blouse I got, and this greyish-black long sweater.

    krazililme Diary Entry krazililme 2003

  • Covered with greasy, rank, greyish-black fur, but wearing clothes like a person — a vest and a pair of knee-length breeches, both of plain leather, dirty and stained and worn in patches.

    The Warslayer Edghill, Rosemary 2002

  • With age, the galls harden, become fibrous, greyish-black and unpalatable.

    Chapter 7 1999

  • Straightening as much as possible, the German giant distinguished a greyish-black lump, vaguely man-shaped; whoever it was rose to his feet and faced his executioner.

    The Grass Crown McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1991

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