darkish

Historical Examples

• He used to be darkish iron-grey, but his hair went snow-white in a fortnight.

  A Set of Six

  Joseph Conrad

• The animal had small eyes, and was of darkish color, almost black.

  A Treasury of Eskimo Tales

  Clara Kern Bayliss

• Over there, coming through that darkish spot between the foothills?

  Across the Mesa

  Jarvis Hall

• Perhaps she had been sitting over the fire in a darkish room.

  Peterkin

  Mary Louisa Molesworth

• Indeed it is, Bellew, especially when the night happens to be also darkish.

  Wrecked but not Ruined

  R.M. Ballantyne