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
  • 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
  • Smooth hammerheads and blacktip sharks spent comparatively more time near the surface, whereas white sharks, spinner sharks, and dusky sharks were active throughout much of the water column.
    Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • Other evidence of bed bugs includes bloody or inky stains on fabric and a sweet, musty smell in the room.
    Opheli Garcia Lawler, Travel + Leisure, 22 Aug. 2025

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“Blackish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blackish. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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