What is "lusterless"

Usage examples of "lusterless".

Her lids were swollen and her face was splotchy, her red hair lusterless as though dulled by grief.

The lusterless sun continued to pour through the tall kitchen windows.

Hightower, a fortress rearing blank walls of lusterless, rust-colored stone and a pylon-like central donjon for which it had been named, a stronghold never breeched.

Kian watched his father close his now lusterless eyes and ease back onto the pillow.

Sa was sipping at a cup, a little shrunken in his finely cut, lusterless silks, but ready.

If I had to paint her portrait from memory, she would have light-gray eyes, shadow-casting lashes, brown hair parted in the middle, flowing smooth and lusterless in two tired curves from her forehead down over her cheeks and ears, and plaited into a stiff pigtail behind.

Cleedis handed over a bag of lusterless black and Pinch wasted no time in unwrapping the cord.

It was a Deodand, formed and featured like a handsome man, finely muscled, but with a dead black lusterless skin and long slit eyes.

They are lusterless and gray and look, as I recorded in an earlier book, like very large cow-pats.

The lamplight was harsh, filling the room, and oddly lusterless on her hair.

Its skin seemed to be a lusterless gray-green, its brow and skull mapped by a craniological nightmare of bulges and eminences.

She remembered that, just out of the lycee, she had tried to seduce an ugly, disagreeable, constantly ill-natured little girl for the sole reason that she had a wild mop of blond hair which, by its unevenly cut curls, created a forest of light and shade over a skin that, while lusterless, had a texture which was soft, smooth, and totally flat.

Though they'd grown up in the same lusterless environment, he and they, with its few wretched attempts at tree planting, its barbed wire and glass-topped walls, its relentless concrete-though they shared all that, he knew they'd have nothing to say to one another.