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Definition

with a slight amount

(If an amount of what is not clear from context, it is typically of color.)

I could hear a tinge of regret in his voice.

tinge = slight amount

The sky was a beautiful blue with just a tinge of pink where the sun was rising.

tinge = slight amount

More even than of strength, he gave an impression of confidence and of an understanding tinged by irony.
George Orwell -- 1984

tinged = with a slight amount

His red hair was cut so short it was just a tinge of rust creeping out of his cap.
Jerry Spinelli -- Milkweed

tinge = a slight amount

His skin was fair and his hair a light brown, though in the sun it seemed to have a reddish tinge that was surely Annie's.
Nicholas Evans -- The Horse Whisperer
Her jaws were open and from between them erupted a great tongue of flame, bright yellow and tinged with blue.
Christopher Paolini -- Eragon
MARTHA: (A pause; then with the greatest disbelief possible, tinged with hysteria) What did you just say to me?
Edward Albee -- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
The lake looked black, but there was a tinge of red to it.
Ted Dekker -- White: The Great Pursuit
She began to slight that love, so that it seemed to have been tinged with sentimental habit from the first.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Tender is the Night
His eyes were unnatural bright, his breathing short and fast and difficult, and what he coughed up was tinged with bright red blood.
Olive Ann Burns -- Cold Sassy Tree
He said that it seemed to have a greenish sort of effect as if there were a greenish tinge in the shadows of the tall bedposts that framed her body.
Ford Madox Ford -- The Good Soldier
It was the same enchantment in two souls, tinged with voluptuousness in Marius, and with modesty in Cosette.
Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
But whatever he accomplished, whatever joy he felt, it was always tinged with the memory of his beautiful little sister and the horror of her fate.
Karen Levine -- Hana's Suitcase
"You could have called us and let us know that," Ben says, his voice tinged with frustration.
John Green -- Paper Towns
His voice seemed suddenly tinged with worry.
Kiera Cass -- The Selection
The small white bird tinged in pink dives down, buries her claws in my chest, and tries to keep me afloat.
Suzanne Collins -- Mockingjay
When he spoke, it was with a tinge of guile and tenderness.
Khaled Hosseini -- A Thousand Splendid Suns
Then the slightly huffy note dropped, a tinge almost of awe coloured her thoughts.
John Wyndham -- The Chrysalids
The sun is sinking farther beyond the clouds, and the bay is a hard gray, just barely tinged with green.
Lauren Oliver -- Delirium
One and the same tongue first stung me, so that it tinged both my cheeks, and then supplied the medicine to me.
Dante Alighieri -- Dante's Inferno

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