Definitions

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  • adjective of green tinged with grey

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Examples

  • The coup de grâce of course was the faded WWII grayish-green jeep parked beside this masterpiece.

    gens du voyage - French Word-A-Day 2009

  • Plus they add a novel texture and grayish-green hue to arrangements of evergreens and pine cones.

    Greenery, With Hints of the Forest and Desert Anne Marie Chaker 2011

  • Are those grayish-green things the “gemstones” that are its eyes?

    Regretsy – Holy Moley 2010

  • Khint­sagov had bragged to his companions for months that what he had in his pocket was just a sample, and that he could get at least two kilograms of the grayish-green powder — not quite enough for a nuclear bomb, but, for a buyer with the right equipment and experience, a good start.

    A Smuggler’s Story 2008

  • The walls, formerly a drab public-building grayish-green, had been painted a deep black.

    Baby Games Chelsea White 2010

  • Khint­sagov had bragged to his companions for months that what he had in his pocket was just a sample, and that he could get at least two kilograms of the grayish-green powder — not quite enough for a nuclear bomb, but, for a buyer with the right equipment and experience, a good start.

    A Smuggler’s Story 2008

  • The man standing before her was quite handsome with his grayish-green eyes, the shadow of a beard, and his thick, dark gold hair that reminded her of baked sugar, wet and pushed back.

    One Season of Sunshine Julia London 2010

  • Khint­sagov had bragged to his companions for months that what he had in his pocket was just a sample, and that he could get at least two kilograms of the grayish-green powder — not quite enough for a nuclear bomb, but, for a buyer with the right equipment and experience, a good start.

    A Smuggler’s Story 2008

  • All he could see beyond that was the grayish-green sky, with no clouds.

    Changing a Flat CL Bledsoe 2010

  • Khint­sagov had bragged to his companions for months that what he had in his pocket was just a sample, and that he could get at least two kilograms of the grayish-green powder — not quite enough for a nuclear bomb, but, for a buyer with the right equipment and experience, a good start.

    A Smuggler’s Story 2008

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