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whitish

adjective as in milky

adjective as in snowy

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adjective as in waxen

adjective as in waxy

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Another was left with darker skin than before - with a pale circle around her eyes, while a third has whitish scars on her lips and knees.

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He groans in pain, his eyes shut and face covered in whitish spots left behind by the healing sores.

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“Here you can see a lot of these pores are now filled with whitish specks,” says Dr Voight, handling a sample of drilled out rock.

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The light, a sort of long, thin, whitish glow, came from a corner of the giant’s mouth.

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Moisture triggers the transformation of cadmium sulfide, which is yellow, into cadmium sulfate, which is white -- resulting in a whitish or dull cast.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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