hueless
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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The bright orange of pumpkins being trucked in from the agricultural fields beyond the community boundary—seen in an instant, the flash of brilliant color, but gone again, returning to their flat and hueless shade.
From "The Giver" by Lois Lowry
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He looked scarcely less hueless and cold, and his hand, that lay embedded in his dark wavy hair, gleamed white and transparent as alabaster.
From Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author by Hentz, Caroline Lee
It moved slowly on; fat, lustreless, indolent, hueless; reached at length its den, and there squatted aloft, loving the darkness; its young swarming around, its prey held in its forceps, its nets cast about.
From Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida by Ouida
He was distressed at the repressed agitation in Bluebell's voice, her hueless face, and the hopeless look in eyes he remembered so beaming, and for the moment heartily wished he had never seen her.
From Bluebell A Novel by Huddleston, Mrs. George Croft
Dr. Harlowe brought her some of that generous wine which had infused such life into my young veins, and forced her to swallow it, but it never brought any color to her hueless cheeks.
From Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author by Hentz, Caroline Lee
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