tawnier
- comparative of tawny.
Example Sentences
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The sauce is a touch spicier and tawnier in color than King’s but basically the same.
From Washington Post • Aug. 28, 2016
Soon after the tawnier russets, like Egremont and the excellent Laxton's Superb, are being harvested.
From The Guardian • Mar. 14, 2011
The stars have zero chemistry here, but they'd be ideal co-hosts for a 4 a.m. infomercial on tauter abs and tawnier tans.
From Time Magazine Archive
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She rarely rode otherwise than bare-headed, and the high-rolled masses of her hair had grown tawnier and redder for that reason.
From The Law of the Land by Hough, Emerson
From E. u. fremonti, the subspecies from the mountains of western and northwestern Wyoming, E. u. montanus differs in: General tone of upper parts lighter; hairs around outermost edge of tail tawnier.
From Taxonomy of the Chipmunks, Eutamias quadrivittatus and Eutamias umbrinus by White, John A.