| Slight stain |
Newsday |
10 Oct 2025 |
| Hint of color |
Thomas Joseph |
25 Sep 2025 |
| Touch what may be sharpened in prong (5) |
The Guardian Cryptic |
27 Aug 2025 |
| Get in trouble a bit (5) |
Mirror Cryptic |
26 Aug 2025 |
| Shade (5) |
Mirror Quick |
26 Aug 2025 |
| Hint of color |
Thomas Joseph |
23 Aug 2025 |
| Slight colouring |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
04 Aug 2025 |
| Whiff |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
31 Jul 2025 |
| Trace of color |
LA Times Daily |
28 Jul 2025 |
| Hint (of colour) |
The Telegraph Plusword |
27 Jul 2025 |
| Can not altogether get the shade (5) |
|
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| Slight trace of colour or flavour (5) |
|
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| Bit of color |
|
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| Metal, for example, turning up colour (5) |
|
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| Hint of colour |
Puzzler Backwords |
01 Jul 2025 |
| Paint in general has a dash of colour (5) |
|
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| Touch metal and get cut |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
18 Jun 2025 |
| A slight tint or colouring (5) |
|
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| Sprinkling - smattering - shade (5) |
The Guardian Quick |
21 May 2025 |
| Can not quite get the shade |
|
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| Being distressed get it in the shade |
|
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| A sign of the colour of money, at some stage (5) |
|
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| Colour found in painting, exceptionally (5) |
|
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| Hint of color |
USA Today |
30 Apr 2025 |
| A little colouring used in sweetmeat in gelatine (5) |
|
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| Hint of colour |
The Times Concise |
21 Apr 2025 |
| Hint of color |
LA Times Daily |
20 Apr 2025 |
| Trace of colour(5) |
|
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| Bit of color |
Thomas Joseph |
11 Apr 2025 |
| Faint colour |
|
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| Smack, chastisement in genteel houses |
|
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| Part of painting exhibiting slight colouration |
|
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| Give it a slight colour and get in a muddle (5) |
|
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| Trace of colour found in painting, exceptionally (5) |
|
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| Cast get outside in shade (5) |
The Guardian Cryptic |
06 Mar 2025 |
| Slight hint of colour |
The Telegraph Plusword |
05 Mar 2025 |
| Manx tiger around the North may add a touch of colour (5) |
|
|
| Can holds last traces of orange tint (5) |
|
|
| Slight tint |
Mirror Classic |
31 Jan 2025 |
| Only the stingiest sits out for a little colour (5) |
|
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| Get in and give it a bit of colour! (5) |
|
|
| Slight colouring |
Mirror Tea Time |
27 Dec 2024 |
| The touch of colour seen in satin, generally (5) |
|
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| Get in sneakily for a little colour (5) |
|
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| Hint of color |
New York Times |
17 Dec 2024 |
| Trace piece of fork broken by head girl |
|
|
| Use a bit of paint in getting the shade (5) |
|
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| Slight colouring (5) |
Puzzler |
24 Nov 2024 |
| Use a bit of paint in getting a particular shade (5) |
|
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| Get in fresh colour (5) |
|
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| Hint (5) |
The Guardian Quick |
21 Oct 2024 |
| Light colouring (5) |
|
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| Use a certain amount of paint in getting a shade (5) |
|
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| Putting extra colour within (5) |
|
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| Somehow get in touch |
|
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| Some noting exceptional shade (5) |
|
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| Hint of colour |
The Telegraph Plusword |
29 Sep 2024 |
| Metal, for example, turning colour (5) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
23 Sep 2024 |
| Ring set in gemstones has slight colouring (5) |
|
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| Get in trouble a little bit (5) |
|
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| Sharp stab of pain wife ignored produces a slight colouring (5) |
|
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| Samples of paint in gentle colour (5) |
|
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| Tint(5) |
|
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| Can, for example, turn to colour (5) |
|
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| Slight colouring |
Mirror Tea Time |
29 Aug 2024 |
| Small hint |
New York Times |
24 Aug 2024 |
| Slight mixture of feeling (5) |
|
|
| Touch of color |
LA Times Mini |
12 Aug 2024 |
| Hint |
LA Times Daily |
04 Aug 2024 |
| Hint of color |
New York Times |
21 Jul 2024 |
| Slight trace of color |
New York Times Mini |
19 Jul 2024 |
| Hint |
New York Times |
13 Jul 2024 |
| Some colour -- metal, for example, given up (5) |
|
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| It gives a touch of colour in satin generally (5) |
|
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| A suffusion of colour (5) |
|
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| Stain affecting everyone in part (5) |
|
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| Tint or colour |
|
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| It has the slight colour of alien gin |
|
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| Get in different shade (5) |
|
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| Hint of pigment (5) |
|
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| Hint of color |
Thomas Joseph |
31 May 2024 |
| Getting emotional - it's showing, just a bit |
|
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| Tint, slight hue (5) |
|
|
| Get in a muddle as to the suffusion of colour (5) |
|
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| Hint of colour (5) |
The Telegraph Mini |
18 May 2024 |
| Painting every shade included (5) |
|
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| Suffusion of colour (5) |
|
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| Impart a trace and get in a muddle with it (5) |
|
|
| Colour slightly in embarrassment in genteel company (5) |
|
|
| _____ of regret |
|
|
| Metal, for example, turning colour (5) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
04 Apr 2024 |
| Touch of color |
USA Today |
01 Apr 2024 |
| Colour obtained from pigment in Germany (5) |
|
|
| Slight colouring |
Mirror Tea Time |
16 Mar 2024 |
| Get in a sort of suffusion (5) |
|
|
| Cast of Educating Essex |
|
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| Hint of color |
Newsday |
05 Mar 2024 |
| The colour that comes from getting excited (5) |
|
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| Get in a different colour (5) |
|
|
| It will slightly colour some element in geophysics (5) |
|
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| Slight colouring of metal for instance being turned (5) |
|
|
| Hint of a color |
|
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| Colour shown in painting, exceptionally (5) |
|
|
| Cat almost traps knight in shade |
The Sun Two Speed |
01 Feb 2024 |
| Slight colouring |
The Sun Two Speed |
01 Feb 2024 |
| Trace, hint (5) |
|
|
| Hint; gin, eh (anag.) |
|
|
| Slight color |
New York Times |
11 Dec 2023 |
| Grope about after money in a slight degree (5) |
|
|
| From "to dip or colour", a word for a trace of indigo, pink, purple, violet or other colouring; or, by extension, a hint of a feeling, flavour, quality etc (5) |
|
|
| Little bit of color |
USA Today |
09 Nov 2023 |
| Bit of color |
Wall Street Journal |
29 Jul 2023 |
| Touch of color |
New York Times |
10 Jul 2023 |
| Subtle colouring |
The Times Concise |
04 Jul 2023 |
| Slight colouring |
The Telegraph Quick |
29 Jun 2023 |
| Hint of color |
Thomas Joseph |
24 Jun 2023 |
| Slight colour in metal regularly grey |
The Guardian Cryptic |
05 Jun 2023 |
| Hint of color |
Thomas Joseph |
02 Jun 2023 |
| Subtle coloration |
Universal |
26 May 2023 |
| Slight coloration |
USA Today |
04 Apr 2023 |
| Little bit of color |
New York Times |
30 Jan 2023 |
| Hint of color |
|
|
| Hint of color |
Wall Street Journal |
17 Dec 2022 |
| Hint of color |
Thomas Joseph |
21 Nov 2022 |
| Hint of color |
Thomas Joseph |
02 Nov 2022 |
| Suggestion some present in German |
The Times Cryptic |
20 Oct 2022 |
| Colour of metal for example given a lift |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
27 Jul 2022 |
| Hint of color |
Thomas Joseph |
07 Jul 2022 |
| Shade, hint |
The Telegraph Quick |
04 May 2022 |
| Small hint |
The Washington Post Sunday |
24 Apr 2022 |
| Hint of color |
Thomas Joseph |
15 Mar 2022 |
| Slight tint |
|
|
| Hint of color |
Wall Street Journal |
05 Jan 2022 |
| Colour adopted by far-right in general |
|
|
| Slight bit, as of color |
LA Times Daily |
14 Dec 2021 |
| Little bit hot in gerbil cages |
The Times Cryptic |
19 Nov 2021 |
| Faint trace |
Newsday |
07 Oct 2021 |
| Trace of color |
Universal |
24 Sep 2021 |
| Faint color |
New York Times |
12 Sep 2021 |
| Slight hint |
Newsday |
13 Aug 2021 |
| Hint |
New York Times |
13 Aug 2021 |
| Tint |
The Telegraph Quick |
03 Jun 2021 |
| Trace of color |
New York Times |
02 May 2021 |
| Hint of color |
Thomas Joseph |
23 Apr 2021 |
| Bit of color |
Premier Sunday |
18 Apr 2021 |
| Slight colouring from drinking bout — new start needed! |
|
|
| Color slightly |
New York Times |
30 Mar 2021 |
| Touch of color |
USA Today |
19 Mar 2021 |
| Wingless wasp's colour |
|
|
| Hint of color |
USA Today |
23 Feb 2021 |
| Bit of color |
|
|
| Trace amount |
The Washington Post |
06 Feb 2021 |
| Trace amount |
LA Times Daily |
06 Feb 2021 |
| Hint of color |
The Washington Post |
18 Jan 2021 |
| Hint of color |
LA Times Daily |
18 Jan 2021 |
| Bit of color |
Universal |
16 Jan 2021 |
| Hint of color |
Wall Street Journal |
05 Jan 2021 |
| Hint of color |
Eugene Sheffer |
27 Nov 2020 |
| Slight presence |
Universal |
06 Nov 2020 |
| Shade offered by some forest in Germany |
|
|
| Trace of color |
Universal |
26 Oct 2020 |
| Trace of color |
The Washington Post |
05 Oct 2020 |
| Trace of color |
LA Times Daily |
05 Oct 2020 |
| Slight trace of color |
The Washington Post Sunday |
27 Sep 2020 |
| Shade |
The Telegraph Quick |
12 Aug 2020 |
| Note thrilling sensation when removing lingerie, primarily |
|
|
| A little colour for one idiot pirouetting |
|
|
| Hint of color |
|
|
| Slight coloration |
USA Today |
08 Jul 2020 |
| Slight bit |
New York Times |
05 Jun 2020 |
| Trace container for example, on the way up |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
03 Jun 2020 |
| Slight coloration (rhymes with "hinge") |
|
|
| Slight trace of color |
|
|
| Hint of color |
Universal |
05 May 2020 |
| Shade, metallic grey, oddly |
|
|
| Little bit of color |
New York Times |
29 Apr 2020 |
| Slightly colour |
The Times Concise |
23 Apr 2020 |
| Hint of hue |
USA Today |
20 Apr 2020 |
| Cat almost traps knight in shade |
The Sun Two Speed |
29 Mar 2020 |
| Slight colouring |
The Sun Two Speed |
29 Mar 2020 |
| Slight hint of color |
|
|
| Forest in Germany offers shade |
The Sun Two Speed |
04 Feb 2020 |
| Stain |
|
|
| Shade found in forest in general |
The Sun Two Speed |
10 Dec 2019 |
| Hint, in fact, in German |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
06 Oct 2019 |
| Touch can dissolve innards of Geraldine |
|
|
| C slightly, as part of getting exasperated |
|
|
| Trace of colour |
Irish Times Simplex |
19 Sep 2019 |
| Trace of color |
Newsday |
16 Sep 2019 |
| Hint; shade |
The Telegraph Quick |
10 Sep 2019 |
| Slightly influence |
New York Times |
05 Sep 2019 |
| A suggestion can get detailed |
|
|
| Faint trace |
Premier Sunday |
28 Jul 2019 |
| Trace |
Wall Street Journal |
29 Jun 2019 |
| Subtle coloration |
USA Today |
03 Jun 2019 |
| Slight trace |
Universal |
23 May 2019 |
| Subtle shade |
USA Today |
12 May 2019 |
| Hint of color |
New York Times |
09 Apr 2019 |
| Touch part of heating element |
|
|
| Blush, e.g |
New York Times |
17 Mar 2019 |
| Bit of color |
The Washington Post |
08 Mar 2019 |
| Bit of color |
LA Times Daily |
08 Mar 2019 |
| Subtle shade |
The Washington Post |
07 Mar 2019 |
| Subtle shade |
LA Times Daily |
07 Mar 2019 |
| Bit of color |
New York Times |
04 Mar 2019 |
| Smattering |
Newsday |
05 Jan 2019 |
| Bit of color |
|
|
| Blush, e.g. |
|
|
| Bit of color |
|
|
| Hint of color |
|
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| Bit of color |
|
|
| Subtle shade |
|
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| Hint of color |
|
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| Slightly influence |
|
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| Subtle shade |
|
|
| Trace of color |
|
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| Trace |
|
|
| Slight trace |
|
|
| Hint of hue |
|
|
| Hint of color |
|
|
| Subtle coloration |
|
|
| Mere suggestion |
Newsday |
29 Dec 2018 |
| Hint |
Newsday |
15 Dec 2018 |
| Hint of color |
Newsday |
13 Dec 2018 |
| Sporting events contribute this little colour |
|
|
| Shade found in pigment in general |
The Sun Two Speed |
22 Nov 2018 |
| No harm in nightmare or that's the slight suspicion |
Irish Times Crosaire |
02 Nov 2018 |
| Hint of a shade |
Newsday |
11 Oct 2018 |
| Slight suggestion |
LA Times Daily |
14 Sep 2018 |
| Slight suggestion |
The Washington Post |
14 Sep 2018 |
| Trace of color |
USA Today |
31 Jul 2018 |
| Trace (colour) |
The Telegraph Quick |
18 Jul 2018 |
| Glimmer of color |
Universal |
01 Jul 2018 |
| Dash can get shortened |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
11 Jun 2018 |
| Color slightly |
Wall Street Journal |
26 May 2018 |
| Slight shade |
Universal |
03 May 2018 |
| A shade quiet in Germany? Just a bit |
|
|
| Colour slightly |
The Times Concise |
16 Apr 2018 |
| Metal, for example, turning colour |
The Sun Two Speed |
29 Jan 2018 |
| Colour slightly |
The Sun Two Speed |
29 Jan 2018 |
| For instance 16's selection turns colour |
The Telegraph Toughie |
05 Jan 2018 |
| Slight suggestion |
|
|
| Color slightly |
|
|
| Slight shade |
|
|
| Glimmer of color |
|
|
| Trace amount |
|
|
| Trace of color |
|
|
| Trace of metal for example recalled |
|
|
| Trace of color |
Wall Street Journal |
16 Oct 2017 |
| Bit of color |
USA Today |
13 Oct 2017 |
| Faint trace |
Universal |
29 Aug 2017 |
| Hint of hue |
Wall Street Journal |
08 Jun 2017 |
| Faint trace |
LA Times Daily |
23 Feb 2017 |
| Color slightly |
Universal |
15 Feb 2017 |
| Trace some incriminating evidence |
|
|
| Soupçon |
LA Times Daily |
28 Jan 2017 |
| Hint of color |
Premier Sunday |
22 Jan 2017 |
| Slight tint or colouring |
The Telegraph General Knowledge |
08 Jan 2017 |
| Faint trace |
|
|
| Soupçon |
|
|
| Slight coloration |
|
|
| Bit of color |
|
|
| Hint of color |
|
|
| Shade |
New York Times |
19 Nov 2016 |
| Just a bit of color |
Universal |
23 Aug 2016 |
| Hint |
LA Times Daily |
22 May 2016 |
| Light shade |
New York Times |
01 May 2016 |
| Bit of color |
Thomas Joseph |
15 Apr 2016 |
| Get in (anag) |
The Guardian Quick |
19 Mar 2016 |
| Small amount of color |
USA Today |
04 Mar 2016 |
| Bit of color |
Newsday |
13 Jan 2016 |
| Shade |
|
|
| Trace of color |
|
|
| Just a bit of color |
|
|
| Hint |
|
|
| Sharp pain wife's given out in shade |
The Telegraph Toughie |
05 Nov 2015 |
| Slight colouring for one egg on the turn |
The Times Cryptic |
15 Oct 2015 |
| Prick sending woman out for smack |
|
|
| Color trace |
Universal |
22 Sep 2015 |
| Trace |
The Telegraph Quick |
23 Aug 2015 |
| Suspicion of unrest in Germany |
|
|
| Bit of coloration |
Newsday |
31 Jul 2015 |
| Metal by empty garage in the shade |
|
|
| Slight coloration |
Newsday |
28 Jun 2015 |
| Just a suggestion |
Newsday |
27 Jun 2015 |
| Trace element, germanium |
The Times Cryptic |
26 May 2015 |
| Touch of color |
Newsday |
19 May 2015 |
| Prickly sensation hasn't left touch |
The Times Cryptic |
13 May 2015 |
| Hint |
The Telegraph Quick |
13 May 2015 |
| Tone adopted by cretin generally |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
02 Apr 2015 |
| Slight colour |
The Telegraph Quick |
17 Jan 2015 |
| Hint of color |
|
|
| Subtle shade |
|
|
| Color slightly |
Jonesin |
01 Jan 2015 |
| Touch of color |
|
|
| Slight coloration |
|
|
| Just a suggestion |
|
|
| Bit of coloration |
|
|
| Color trace |
|
|
| Trace metal, for example, is turned up |
|
|
| Bit |
|
|
| Trace of color |
|
|
| Hint of color |
|
|
| Trace of color |
|
|
| Trace metal to General Electric |
|
|
| Faint hue |
|
|
| Faint coloration |
|
|
| Slight trace |
|
|
| Hint of color |
|
|
| Just a trace |
|
|
| Slight color |
|
|
| Nuance |
|
|
| A bit of color |
|
|
| Colour that's no good in neckwear |
|
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| Shade |
|
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| Trace |
|
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| Hint |
|
|
| Nuance |
|
|
| Trace |
|
|
| Nuance |
|
|
| Touch, as of color |
|
|
| Hint of hue |
|
|
| Cast, as of color |
|
|
| Modicum of color |
|
|
| Hint of hue |
|
|
| Soupçon |
|
|
| Slight coloration |
|
|
| Subtle extra color |
|
|
| Hint |
|
|
| Trace of color |
|
|
| Slight shade |
|
|
| Bit of color |
|
|
| Hint of a tint |
|
|
| Slight hint |
|
|
| Slight coloring |
|
|
| Hint of color |
|
|
| Hint |
|
|
| Hint of a tint |
|
|
| Bit of color |
|
|
| Slight color |
|
|
| Hint of color |
|
|
| Slight trace |
|
|
| Smattering |
|
|
| Hint of hue |
|
|
| Slight trace |
|
|
| Affect slightly |
|
|
| Faint trace |
|
|
| Suggestion |
|
|
| Slight trace |
|
|
| Light coloring |
|
|
| Slight bit |
|
|
| Bit of color |
|
|
| Slight degree |
|
|
| Faint trace |
|
|
| Slight addition |
|
|
| Slight degree |
|
|
| Hint of tint |
|
|
| Slight coloration |
|
|
| A bit of color |
|
|
| Hint of color |
|
|
| Stain lightly |
|
|
| Hint of color |
|
|
| Slight degree |
|
|
| Slight coloration |
|
|
| Bit of hue |
|
|
| Smattering |
|
|
| Shade |
|
|
| Slight coloration |
|
|
| Hint |
|
|
| Slight trace |
|
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| Shade |
|
|
| Hint |
|
|
| Slight coloration |
|
|
| Subtle coloration |
|
|
| Trace, as of color |
|
|
| Trace |
|
|
| Slight color |
|
|
| Trace, as of color |
|
|
| Hint |
|
|
| Color trace |
|
|
| Glimmer of color |
|
|
| Barest trace |
|
|
| Cast |
|
|
| Subtle coloration |
|
|
| Slight degree |
|
|
| Slight tint |
|
|
| Trace of color |
|
|
| Small amount of color |
|
|
| Smattering |
|
|
| Nuance, as of color |
|
|
| Slight coloration |
|
|
| Touch, as of color |
|
|
| Soupcon |
|
|
| Touch of color |
|
|
| Tiny bit |
|
|
| Small amount |
|
|
| Hue |
|
|
| Just a hint |
|
|
| Hint of color |
|
|
| Stain lightly |
|
|
| Smattering |
|
|
| Add to, slightly |
|
|
| Tint |
|
|
| Touch of color |
|
|
| Soupcon |
|
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| Faint color |
|
|
| Small amount |
|
|
| Suffuse |
|
|
| Trace |
|
|
| Color slightly |
|
|
| Faint hue |
|
|
| Slight coloring |
|
|
| Bit of color |
|
|
| Modicum of color |
|
|
| Color |
|
|
| Hue |
|
|
| Smack; touch |
|
|
| Hue that's light and slight |
|
|
| Touch |
|
|
| Slight amount |
|
|
| Slight shade |
|
|
| Slight degree |
|
|
| Slight trace. |
|
|
| Dye. |
|
|
| Smack. |
|
|
| A smack. |
|
|
| Slight degree of coloration. |
|
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| Stain. |
|
|
| Faint color. |
|
|
| Faint feeling |
|
|
| Slight coloration. |
|
|
| Very small amount. |
|
|
| Faint coloring. |
|
|
| Slight color. |
|
|
| Shade. |
|
|
| Slight flavor. |
|
|
| Suffuse slightly. |
|
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| Color slightly. |
|
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| Color. |
|
|
| Coloring. |
|
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| Small amount. |
|
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| Touch. |
|
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| Hue. |
|
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| Minute amount. |
|
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| Suffusing shade. |
|
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| Trace. |
|
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| Slight coloring. |
|
|