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
Methought the world was bound with final frost; The sun, made hueless as with fear and awe, Illumined yet the lands it could not thaw.
From The Star-Treader and other poems by Smith, Clark Ashton
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
The sunken and mist-covered eye; the pallid cheek; the hueless lips, and painful breath, too truly testified that the dark angel Azrael was watching by the couch-side.
From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 6 June 1848 by Conrad, Robert Taylor
"Pray, Emil, do not distress yourself over anything so absurd," coldly interposed Gerald Goddard, but with almost hueless lips.
From The Masked Bridal by Sheldon, Georgie, Mrs.
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