wannish

Historical Examples

• He had the look about him—a wearied and red-eyed and a wannish look it was—of one who never knows when he is licked.

  Ladies and Gentlemen 

  Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb

• The moon turns the smoke into wannish clouds of white and yellow, which slowly rise, break, and disappear.

  The Log School-House on the Columbia

  Hezekiah Butterworth

• Wanness should be taken as meaning simply less bright than absolute whiteness, as Keats speaks of “wannish fire,” etc.

  The Browning Cyclopdia

  Edward Berdoe