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

John Romero, a division director with the state Transportation Department, described the material that needs to be removed as blackish muck.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 6, 2023

The L.A. smog was so bad that the ground was kind of blackish.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 22, 2022

It may have been nervousness, awkwardness, but the pan tilted under Pecola’s fingers and fell to the floor, splattering blackish blueberries everywhere.

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison