bluish
adjective
somewhat blue.
bluishness
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a word derived from
bluish.
Example Sentences
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Her hair was as black as her dress; her eyes, when one saw them, seemed blacker than either, on account of the bluishness of the white surrounding the pupil.
From Balcony Stories by Grace E. King
The sea between was of a strange thick bluishness, almost like raw egg-white; while, as always here, some snow-clouds, white and woolly, floated in the pale sky.
From The Purple Cloud by M. P. (Matthew Phipps) Shiel
His hair in wild disorder, cheeks fallen in and corpse like with the bluishness of clay, the chūgen grinned and threatened.
From Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2 by James S. (James Seguin) De Benneville
One day when she ventured upon a bit of criticism, precisely about an azure-tinted poplar, he made her go to nature and note for herself the delicate bluishness of the foliage.
From His Masterpiece by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly
It was of a tawny color, with great, irregular areas of yellow and patches of bluishness.
From Sand Doom by Murray Leinster
