brownish

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Some of the trees were unshapely, Charlie Brownish, compared with the well-tended specimens on Christmas tree farms.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025

"Brownish, suggestive of weak tea, the water often alarmed guests. Sorry, but there seems to be something wrong with the water in my loo", Harry writes.

From BBC • Jan. 10, 2023

Brownish gray-brick exteriors were plastered with peeling posters for “anticorpulence tablets” or scrawled with cellphone numbers of plumbers or fake ID peddlers.

From New York Times • Jan. 23, 2017

Auditioning for Kirsten Dunst’s character in Jumanji, Johansson struck upon a weirdly Charlie Brownish cadence and mined it for everything it was worth.

From The Guardian • Jan. 17, 2017

“Bob Owens. Brownish hair, a bit too long. Didn’t talk much. He was the one who named all the bones of the skeleton in the quiz. Remember?”

From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman