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  • adjective of a color tinged with yellow

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Examples

  • A standard-def DVD is also included, but like most Warner DVDs, it is an overly saturated, yellow-tinged presentation with heavy macro-blocking.

    Scott Mendelson: Blu Ray Review: The Rite Scott Mendelson 2011

  • Aged darker than an Aboriginal's arms, streaked through with yellow-tinged fat, thick as two of your fingers.

    A True Man's Dinner Dungeekin 2008

  • It is said that her descendants inherit the genes that rob them of melanin, with every generation producing at least one light-skinned, almost yellow-tinged baby with a soft dusting of curly reddish hair and nearly white eyelashes.

    Spellbound Karen Palmer 2010

  • As it did do, the markings on its breast plumage – dark brown, almost black spots and speckled marks banding in lines and sequences over a pale, almost yellow-tinged background – seemed to stretch and expand.

    Country diary: Wenlock Edge Paul Evans 2010

  • Against the darkness the living stood out in sharp relief: Wynne and Zoo with their rainbow-colored auras, methodically reducing the Jeep and its lone Shadowling occupant to scraps; Nansee in deific white making the aged truck move like a sportscar on a straightaway; a yellow-tinged Shadowling fighting a muddy-colored silhouette that Kira belatedly recognized as Khefar.

    Shadow Chase Seressia Glass 2010

  • It is said that her descendants inherit the genes that rob them of melanin, with every generation producing at least one light-skinned, almost yellow-tinged baby with a soft dusting of curly reddish hair and nearly white eyelashes.

    Spellbound Karen Palmer 2010

  • "My business is better than before," says Mr. Kwong, as he presides over displays of the yellow-tinged liquor at the Angkor Rice Wine Workshop, a distillery and souvenir shop he owns.

    Asia's Tourists Hit the Beaches, Warming Region's Economy Alex Frangos 2010

  • Aged darker than an Aboriginal's arms, streaked through with yellow-tinged fat, thick as two of your fingers.

    Archive 2008-10-01 Dungeekin 2008

  • It is said that her descendants inherit the genes that rob them of melanin, with every generation producing at least one light-skinned, almost yellow-tinged baby with a soft dusting of curly reddish hair and nearly white eyelashes.

    Spellbound Karen Palmer 2010

  • Against the darkness the living stood out in sharp relief: Wynne and Zoo with their rainbow-colored auras, methodically reducing the Jeep and its lone Shadowling occupant to scraps; Nansee in deific white making the aged truck move like a sportscar on a straightaway; a yellow-tinged Shadowling fighting a muddy-colored silhouette that Kira belatedly recognized as Khefar.

    Shadow Chase Seressia Glass 2010

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