blackish

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Recent Examples of blackish Slugs also may leave behind blackish fecal droppings. Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 28 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for blackish
Adjective
  • Olsen kept her glam simple for the evening and opted for a terracotta blush on her cheeks and a dusky mauve gloss on her lips.
    Starr Bowenbank, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The show’s palette trends toward bottle-green woods, gauzy golden light, dusky midnight-blue nighttime scenes, and grimly gray interiors, and within those tableaus, Task’s male characters are gorgeously aggrieved, emotion pouring off of them like coffee from a Wawa urn.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Gothic beauty is spilling all over the MTV Video Music Awards red carpet, with a litany of a-listers donning inky black eyeshadow and nude lip shades.
    Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Japanese, slight in build, sporting a gray T-shirt, with inky hair cut into a modish bowl, neither Greenberg nor Bowyer yet knew the man’s name — Ippei Mizuhara.
    DAVID AMSDEN, Rolling Stone, 29 Aug. 2025

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“Blackish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blackish. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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