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tinged
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  • More even than of strength, he gave an impression of confidence and of an understanding tinged by irony.  (source)
    tinged = with a slight amount
  • Now as came near, it was tinged with a flickering sparkle of man colours at the surface, reflected and splintered from the wavering light of his torch.  (source)
    tinged = slightly colored
  • Inside, warm air tinged with the smell of engine oil enveloped her.†  (source)
    tinged = with a slight amount (often of color)
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  • And there in the corner, at a table for two, her hair tinged with gray, the willowy woman waited.†  (source)
    tinged = with a slight amount (often of color)
  • Draco Malfoy didn't go red, but a pink tinge appeared in his pale cheeks.†  (source)
    tinge = a slight amount; or to contain a slight amount
  • Tinges of brown.†  (source)
    Tinges = adds or has a slight amount (often of color)
  • All those scraggy-looking Santa Clauses were standing on corners ringing those bells, and the Salvation Army girls, the ones that don't wear any lipstick or anything, were tinging bells too.†  (source)
    tinging = adding a slight amount (often of color)
  • Cal meets my eyes, a silver blush tingeing his cheeks.†  (source)
    tingeing = adding a slight amount  (often of color)
  • Though I had left the island eight years before, my memories of prison were still fresh and untinged by nostalgia.†  (source)
    untinged = without a slight amount (often of color)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in untinged means not and reverses the meaning of tinged. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • A ripple again, this one tinged with growing excitement.†  (source)
    tinged = with a slight amount (often of color)
  • It had a pale, bluish tinge and there were marks on its neck where the umbilical chord had strangled it.†  (source)
    tinge = a slight amount; or to contain a slight amount
  • She looked scared, her chest heaving, her face reddening, with tinges of gray skirting the edges.†  (source)
    tinges = adds or has a slight amount (often of color)
  • This we have seen done by England, our old rival and enemy; and by France, strangely coupled with her against us, under the influence of the Anglicism strongly tinging the policy of her present prime minister, Guizot.†  (source)
    tinging = adding a slight amount (often of color)
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