greenish
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of greenish
Example Sentences
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The sludge was greenish brown and it stank and moved.
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“Cut short? And greenish eyes, with kind of crinkles around them?”
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The sky quickly took on that greenish color like it gets before a cyclone hits.
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“It has a greenish scrofulous-meats look to it, but he says it has a certain chic.”
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She met his gaze and was certain that he looked a bit pale, that the faint greenish tinge from his still-healing nose was more pronounced, that she’d done something to hurt him.
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