whitish

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Recent Examples of whitish Small, whitish or tan spots, which reach soup-can size, appear on the turf. Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 6 Oct. 2025 Tonsil stones, or tonsilloliths, are small, firm, whitish deposits that may form in the deep pockets and corners of your tonsils. Mark Gurarie, Health, 4 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for whitish
Adjective
  • The bright blue hat showcases the white, raised embroidery of the Los Angeles Dodgers logo.
    Izzy Baskette, PEOPLE, 31 Oct. 2025
  • This juxtaposition is seen on the collaboration, with the left shoe donning a white leather base and using precise, high-resolution imagery.
    Riley Jones, Footwear News, 31 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • How To Remove Hard-Water Stains Shower doors often develop chalky, white, hard-water stains from droplets of water drying on the glass.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Miner said that without additives, the taste can be slightly chalky.
    Mira Miller, Verywell Health, 10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Add the white and pale green scallion pieces, cooking and stirring occasionally until the scallions are slightly charred, about 3 minutes.
    Elizabeth Fogarty, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Its legs are a similar pale yellow color covered with irregular black and dark-brown markings, according to Omelko.
    Lauren Liebhaber, Miami Herald, 28 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • That thoughtfulness is why the foundation blends seamlessly without ever leaving behind an ashy cast, a struggle many of us know all too well.
    Essence, Essence, 7 Oct. 2025
  • When the hydrants ran dry, the loss of pressure caused ashy water to backflow into the lines.
    Dana Goodyear, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Its skin looked yellow, and sometimes ashen.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Given shorter travel times, a greater number of people would be able to experience its otherworldly ashen plains.
    Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 10 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Whereas the play only obliquely references the character’s successful new novel, this version presents Eileen’s manuscript — co-written with her mousy lover Thea (Imogen Potts), a former schoolmate of Hedda’s — as a revelatory treatise on the future of human sexuality.
    Abby Monteil, Them., 28 Oct. 2025
  • Generously, Thompson’s performance leaves room for two more, the first being Poots’ low-key but impressive Thea, a mousy woman who arrives wet and bedraggled, causing Hedda to dress her in her own clothes (a gesture that has more than one meaning for Hedda, who’s still in love with Eileen).
    Damon Wise, Deadline, 9 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Scherzinger’s only familiarity with the material was Billy Wilder’s 1950 film, which starred Gloria Swanson as a faded beauty of the silent era hell-bent on a return to relevance.
    Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Her long blond ends drew a stark contrast to her faded brown roots, which were parted down the middle and brushed up in the back.
    Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 17 Oct. 2025

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“Whitish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/whitish. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.

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