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Meanings of grayish in English

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Of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black.

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Usage of grayish in English
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The window was the same grayish rectangle in the blackness as before.
The Circular Staircase
2
Willamar studied the grayish-gold stone, turning it over to see all sides.
The Shelters of Stone
3
The grayish haze became thicker and every ridge and peak was hidden.
The Masters of the Peaks: A Story of the Great North Woods
4
Her gloves were grayish and were worn through at the right forefinger.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
5
Counter now was dust; ticket-man only a crumble of fine, grayish powder.
Darkness and Dawn
6
There was his hair; a coarse, wiry mop of a queer grayish-brown.
The Uttermost Farthing: A Savant's Vendetta
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His sides were grayish-white and not spotted like the sides of Melody.
The Burgess Bird Book for Children
8
Among the sails appeared every afternoon gigantic grayish feather-like plumes of smoke.
Stories by Foreign Authors: Polish, Greek, Belgian, Hungarian
9
Without them, he'd see ordinary print as a grayish and chaotic blur.
Girl out back
10
Bennett smoothed his hand down the front of a grayish-green army uniform.
In every heartbeat
11
And from the lowest one came a grayish-brown flood of lumpy sewage.
IT
12
His round, blonde beard came to a grayish point beneath the chin.
The Indian Lily and Other Stories
13
The body, limp and grayish, was suspended under the sodden life preserver.
Cry for the strangers
14
A light, grayish animal appeared to be tearing at an old stump.
The Last of the Plainsmen
15
The grayish color on her skin is due to severe vitamin deficiencies.
The missing
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It became fixed on a grayish middle-aged man seated at Gilmore's elbow.
The Just and the Unjust
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