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  • adjective superlative form of grey: most grey.

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Examples

  • Or to put it another way: an unreliable narrator with the fattest, greyest arse you ever saw.

    When it comes to phone hacking, the press is the elephant in the room 2010

  • I said, the middle-aged driver had the greyest black face,

    A WOMAN IS TALKING TO DEATH Maggie Jochild 2007

  • They are easy to wear, brighten up the dullest of days clearly - they're silver, silver makes the greyest of days bright and sunny.

    Archive 2008-07-01 Katy 2008

  • Well, it's the greyest black I've ever seen ... inhale, exhale cookies repeat previous - next

    cacatherine Diary Entry cacatherine 2008

  • They are easy to wear, brighten up the dullest of days clearly - they're silver, silver makes the greyest of days bright and sunny.

    Sole Monday (and the winners are....coming later) Katy 2008

  • Kathy and her friends are supposed to be us, a mirror of human existence, but even in my dullest and greyest, I doubt I'd be able to see myself in these sheepish, passionless individuals.

    Archive 2006-01-01 Abigail Nussbaum 2006

  • Kathy and her friends are supposed to be us, a mirror of human existence, but even in my dullest and greyest, I doubt I'd be able to see myself in these sheepish, passionless individuals.

    Recent Reading Roundup 3 Abigail Nussbaum 2006

  • And the greyest, most depressing noon you can imagine, ARRGH rain on my parade why dont you and in fact it is drizzlingvery lightheaded on my way back.

    Archive 2005-05-01 Minzo 2005

  • And the greyest, most depressing noon you can imagine, ARRGH rain on my parade why dont you and in fact it is drizzlingvery lightheaded on my way back.

    DONE! (the unplugged version) Minzo 2005

  • Ironically, the greyest of the grey, John Major, survived as a worthy but dull Prime Minister only for us to find out later that he had been entertaining the irrepressible Edwina Curry behind closed doors for more years than we care to think about.

    Keep it up, Boris 2004

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