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silverish

a. Somewhat silver in colour.

WordNet
silverish

adj. lustrous gray; covered with or tinged with the color of silver; "silvery hair" [syn: argent, silver, silvery]

Usage examples of "silverish".

The topless woman turned her head slightly-saw a four-, maybe five-foot silverish shadow not twelve inches away.

Up ahead, in the last of the silverish light, she saw a small clearing, a natural place for a band of weary Resistance fighters to rest.

Another team were following them up, spraying the drying cement with a gelatin mucus that shimmered with oil-slick marquetry until it hardened into the distinctive silverish hue.

It bubbled like magma then evaporated into a silverish poisonous cloud.

The person was a woman, nude except for high-heeled shoes of some glittering silverish metal and a tall conical white hat with outspread bird-wings.

Then he fumbled about a bit more and emerged with a narrow cylindrical, silverish obect.

Parp, with something of impatience, and used the silverish object to light his pipe.

He lit it again with the small, silverish object, and leaned back against the throne.

Several pairs of strong hands seized me, and I caught a glimpse of a heavy, curved, silverish object.

The huge puffed sleeves were fashioned with rows of midnight blue velvet ribbon and narrow silk ruching whose iridescence changed from dark to a silverish blue.

Close up, he makes out the sleeping trees, a silverish sheen on overgrown grass.

Suddenly, one of them, a silverish young woman with designs in red and blue, barked an order in a strange tongue and they stopped again.

Up ahead, in the last of the silverish light, she saw a small clearing, a natural place for a band of weary Resistance fighters to rest.