purplish
adjective
of or having a somewhat purple hue.
Example Sentences
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"I just took her out of my jacket and she was just completely limp. She was pale and her lips were a kind of purply colour."
From BBC ● May 2, 2025
At one large farm, rows of flowery, cactuslike dragonfruit plants droop over their wire props, heavy with juice that stains our fingers and lips a bright purply pink.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 23, 2020
There are many other symbols purply dotting the story: ducks, a cello, laundry, that soup.
From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2017
Homer dug his wooden spoon in, plucked out a mound of the purply goop, and downed it.
From BusinessWeek ● Feb. 16, 2012
Think what Bill Gates, say, would pay for some tendriled, purply lobed piece of Venusian exotica to put in a pot in his greenhouse.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
