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
He trembled more than ever, and his cheeks were now quite hueless.
From An Ambitious Woman A Novel by Fawcett, Edgar
The grass grew rare, A blight lurked in the darkening air, The very moss grew hueless and spare, The last daisy stood all astunt; Behind his back the soil lay bare, But barer in front.
From Goblin Market, The Prince's Progress, and Other Poems by Rossetti, Christina Georgina
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
"The luminous rich colours that you wore "Have changed to hueless khaki in the night.
From Counter-Attack and Other Poems by Sassoon, Siegfried
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