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  • adjective of red tinged with black

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Examples

  • A picture of a blonde girl in a white prom dress stained a blackish-red with dried blood was shown on the billboard-sized screen.

    Molecules Joe Deir 2011

  • Despite her loyalty to some hideous blackish-red lipstick, her mouth came across more as dark two-dimensional lines than actual lips.

    As Husbands Go Susan Isaacs 2010

  • Despite her loyalty to some hideous blackish-red lipstick, her mouth came across more as dark two-dimensional lines than actual lips.

    As Husbands Go Susan Isaacs 2010

  • He bit deep, bringing a flood of blackish-red liquor that ran freely from the sides of his muzzle.

    The Dark Tower King, Stephen 2004

  • Properly cured meat is salt but not too salt, of a deep blackish-red, and when sliced thin, partly translucent, also of an indescribable savoriness.

    Dishes & Beverages of the Old South Martha McCulloch-Williams

  • Meltzer was wearing an outfit - floral skirt, chunky shoes, blackish-red nail polish, leopard-print coat - that would have seemed entirely appropriate attire to go see

    Salon Amy Benfer 2010

  • (I'm partial to the Lockheed SR-71B Blackbird, a blackish-red spy plane that can fly 2,200 m.p.h.)

    Freep.com - RSS 2010

  • (I'm partial to the Lockheed SR-71B Blackbird, a blackish-red spy plane that can fly 2,200 m.p.h.)

    Freep.com - RSS 2010

  • Meltzer was wearing an outfit - floral skirt, chunky shoes, blackish-red nail polish, leopard-print coat - that would have seemed entirely appropriate attire to go see

    Salon Amy Benfer 2010

  • Meltzer was wearing an outfit - floral skirt, chunky shoes, blackish-red nail polish, leopard-print coat - that would have seemed entirely appropriate attire to go see

    Salon Amy Benfer 2010

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