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[ grey-ish ] / ˈgreɪ ɪʃ /
adjectivehaving a tinge of gray; slightly gray: The sky was full of dark, grayish clouds. similar to gray: a grayish color; a grayish purple. Also especially British, grey·ish . Origin of grayishFirst recorded in 1555–65; gray1 + -ish1 Words nearby grayishgray-headed, gray hepatization, grayhound, gray induration, gray iron, grayish, gray jay, Gray Lady, graylag, grayling, graymail Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for grayishThe public observers were overwhelmingly male, most of them in jeans and grayish blazers. Norway Puts Hate on Trial, With Anders Behring Breivik’s Ugly Beliefs|Asne Seierstad|April 15, 2012|DAILY BEAST The specific name griseus means gray, and probably has reference to the grayish color of the winter plumage. Birds and Nature Vol. 9 No. 2 [February 1901]|Various There is a grayish or brown dark stripe from the nostril to the eye; the stripe continues to the groin. A Distributional Study of the Amphibians of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico|William E. Duellman Far and wide the sea of verdure rolls around us, broken only by ridges of grayish rock and scarped cliffs of reddish basalt. Out-of-Doors in the Holy Land|Henry Van Dyke
Counter now was dust; ticket-man only a crumble of fine, grayish powder. Darkness and Dawn|George Allan England He's a tall, stoop-shouldered gent, with a grayish mustache and a good deal of gold watch chain looped across his vest. Shorty McCabe on the Job|Sewell Ford
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