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
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 Christina Georgina Rossetti
She was fastening into her girdle a hueless and scentless nosegay, when Henry Sympson called to her as he came limping from the house.
From Shirley by Charlotte Brontë
Grand old trees, romantic walks, delicious flowers, had no existence for him; the whole world was one great, hueless, formless void, in which he beheld nothing but the spectral image mirrored in his own soul.
From Fairy Fingers A Novel by Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt Ritchie
"The luminous rich colours that you wore "Have changed to hueless khaki in the night.
From Counter-Attack and Other Poems by Siegfried Sassoon
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