blackish

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The prosecution had claimed the stains were reddish when the clothes were recovered - but the defence argued that blood would have turned blackish after being immersed in miso for so long.

From BBC • Dec. 20, 2024

Fresh from the interior of a planet, magma usually forms a blackish rock called basalt—not granite, says planetary geoscientist Harry McSween of the University of Tennessee.

From National Geographic • Oct. 12, 2023

“Through that window I saw my first palm tree, not six feet away … but the palm was blackish at its branches, stained by carbon monoxide coming out of the Third Street tunnel.”

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 20, 2022

A blackish mold now coated the food, the old and tattered bedding, even the weapons.

From New York Times • Jul. 24, 2022

The two older ladies started shrieking when they got a look at my face, which had bloomed into a hellish palette of grayish yellow and blackish purple.

From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx